Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Aug 2007 21:50 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The sixth major DragonFly BSD release, version 1.10, was announced today by project creator Matthew Dillon. Billed as "more stable than the 1.8 release", it includes improved virtual kernel support, a new disk management infrastructure, improvements to wireless networking, and support for the new syslink protocol. As to what all that means, KernelTrap has just posted an interview with Dillon. Going beyond today's 1.10 release, the interview explores DragonFly's new clustering high-availability filesystem which sounds superior to ZFS, the project's goals for the 2.0 release expected in six months, and a comparison of the BSD license versus the GPL.
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2006-12-05
"If you don't know how to do that though you probably shouldn't be using BSD."
I agree for the most part, but there's always the ability to learn. It just takes a certain type of thinking, lots of learning (reading), and patience... I went from a complete Windows user, helpless at the command line, to being somewhat decent at the command line and able to install a GUI in certain distros... if I recall correctly, FreeBSD was one of the BSDs I got a GUI working with. OpenBSD was the only one I couldn't even get installed.
But yeah... if LightRider keeps his stance on not wanting to even install a GUI himself, I would say he might as well try PC-BSD or DesktopBSD.
[To be fair, I did mess around on the command line when I was way younger, on an Apple IIe and later a Gateway2000 with Win95/real-mode DOS. Said "good riddance" to the command line years ago never expecting to come back, and now I'm using it more than I have since the Apple IIe days (though the GUI takes top priority, by far... I'm just too used to it). :p ]
Edited 2007-08-07 05:06