DragonflyBSD 1.10.1 has been released. It includes several bugfixes. "DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly branched from FreeBSD in 2003 in order to develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems."
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I had a new machine delivered on Monday—a Core 2 Duo from Dell (hey, it's just going to sit in the corner without a monitor or keyboard, and they're cheap). DragonFly was the only BSD to even boot without hanging. There was a minor disagreement over the SATA DVD-RW drive: with the SATA chipset in compatibility mode, interrupts are generated at a phenomenal rate, but I could install the OS (albeit slowly), thanks to DragonFly's livelock interrupt limiter. With the controller in RAID mode, all of the problems go away, but the DVD drive isn't supported yet. No big loss—I don't exactly need it save for the initial installation. My on-board (ICH9) ethernet doesn't work, but I've got a couple of NICs spare anyway. All in all, a fairly typical non-Windows-on-brand-new-hardware tale!
I'll be {build,install}{world,kernel}ing tomorrow evening, for sure.
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I'd try DesktopBSD, but I don't plan on doing anything remotely desktop-oriented with the machine—and I'm really quite interested in some of DragonFly's features (vkernels, jails with multiple IP address and IPv6 support, etc).
I should say, incidentally, I'm really liking DragonFly so far: the lack of on-board ethernet or DVD-RW aren't deal-breakers for me at all (both will get supported in a later release, I'm fairly sure, and I don't need either of them just now).
Edited 2007-08-23 12:38
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Hahaha. It would be awesome!
Then again, I'm a lowly personal banker at the moment working in a branch in a tiny farm town.
So, the odds of that are rather unlikely. I don't think I'll ever work in IT (Writing and Social Work are more my style). Tech is just a hobby 
Still, if my manager wants to come in and have me buy a ton of cool hardware and play with it, I'd be happy to!
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a Core 2 Duo from Hell
To be honest, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that it's too new for anyone to support—the manufacturer, unsurprisingly, only provides drivers for Windows, just as with almost everything else.
Given a couple of months, I'd imagine everything in it will work just fine with all of the BSDs.
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2007-08-23
I installed it on my laptop a lenovo/ibm thinkpad x60.
graphic, sound, ethernet, even laptop special keys (brightness and sound up/down buttons) are supported.
i had trouble with laptop key on ubuntu and other linuxes like pressing brightness button would make my screen goes black and doesn't respond anymore.. killing X and log in again seemed to be the only solution.
on dragonfly not only all thoses work nicely, but the response of the OS is really much better. starting firefox for example is much faster and doesn't take up as long as on ubuntu or sabayon which are the last distro i tryed on this laptop before installing dragonfly.
pkgsrc is also very simple to use.. i installed xorg, xfce4, firefox and xmms very easily. just like that pkg_add xfce4 / pkgadd xmms / pkg_add firefox-2.0.0.4.. job's done 
only minus so far i couldn't find precompiled jdk and eclipse packages. but after quickly googling about it, it seems they were present in previous release of dragonfly though. well i'm pleasantly surprised by dragonfly bsd
Edited 2007-08-23 03:42
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"Does anyone have any screen shots or links to screen shots for this new release?"
Here you go =D
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But seriously, it looks like pretty much any Unix-like system does from both the command line and from your chosen DE. DragonFly isn't about looks, its about technology.
Edited 2007-08-24 16:04
