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DragonFly BSD Digest says: WARNS_WERROR has been turned on, for i386 and for amd64 builds. This means that warnings will halt a build just like an error.  This should mean that the number of warnings from DragonFly source (already lower because of Sasha Wildner’s efforts, among others) should only decrease from now on. More: continued [...]

DragonFly BSD Digest says: If you’re running DragonFly 2.4 on amd64, you may have noticed trouble with USB drives or separate issues with ACPI.  Both seem to be fixed by the same commit.  It’s been merged to the 2.4 branch, so updating on that branch will get the fixes without moving to 2.5. More: continued here [...]

A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru says: The question isn’t “where are the women in open source?” but “what cool things are they up to?”. If you want to keep up-to-date with the answer, check out the FOSS Women blog aggregator. More: continued here

A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru says: Had a great time in Santo Domingo this week at COSECOL. More: continued here

DragonFly BSD Digest says: Some months ago, Nikita Glukhov started working on a port of tmpfs to DragonFly.  It’s incomplete, but Alex Hornung has put together a nice summary and is looking for someone to take it up again.  I’d sure like to see it active again; it’s much better than mfs. More: continued here

DragonFly BSD Digest says: There’s now a Git repo of pkgsrc.  This is just a copy from cvs every 15 minutes, so it won’t allow changes back to pkgsrc, but it’s much faster to download via git than it is via cvs. More: continued here

DragonFly BSD Digest says: If you had any trouble with the dramatic changes in the 2.4 page, there’s a page on the DragonFly BSD site that lists possible workarounds. More: continued here

DragonFly BSD Digest says: DragonFly’s newest committer is Jordan Gordeev, whose name may already be familiar.  He’s the student behind the 2008/2009 Summer of Code projects for AMD64 support in DragonFly.  You’ll notice the 2.4 release has a 64-bit version, in no small part due to his effort.  Welcome Jordan! More: continued here

DragonFly BSD Digest says: The 2.4 release of DragonFly is out.  This is a major release, with a lot of new features packed in, so read the release notes carefully.  There’s a 64-bit experimental version, too By the way, please use a mirror.  Avalon is a good one, as is chlamydia. More: continued here

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