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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Which version did you try? pkgsrc support has improved greatly since it was first introduced. To get binaries to work all you have to do is set an environment variable containing the path to the packages and then type "pkg_add pkg_name" and all that is needed will be downloaded and installed. If the last version you tried was before 1.6 I would recommend you to try again.
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2007-07-10
Is there anyone on OSNews that has experience with Dragonfly? I tried to set it up on an older machine and could navigate (for the most part) through configuration and networking, but couldn't get pkgsrc binaries work (compiles + old hardware is not fun, but I couldn't even get that working).