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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Member since:2006-02-11
That wouldn't be progress, that would be silly. The BSDs are not aimed at the desktop market, it's mainly used for servers. Of course you certainly can install xorg and a desktop of your choice. If you don't know how to do that though you probably shouldn't be using BSD.
Edited 2007-08-07 02:20
Member since: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
Member since:2006-01-01
"If you don't know how to do that though you probably shouldn't be using BSD"
what kind of a response is that. you cant say that, if he does not know how at least lead him to couple sites that will show him how.
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/x11.html
Member since:2006-07-15
Member since:2005-07-06
I got gnome up on it once a long time ago, in an early version. Haven't really played with it since... but I am sure it will be a kick-butt distro once it is stable and polished (by stable I mean development has reached the point where all major goals have been reached - if it hasn't already gotten there).
Member since:2005-08-27
LightRider, if your looking for a Desktop oriented BSD then PC-BSD is probably the best choice. It comes up with a complete graphical based installer and KDE out of the box:
http://www.pcbsd.org/
Member since:
2007-08-05
if Dragonfly Bsd has progressed to the point where
after you install it, it will actually boot up
INTO A GUI LIKE KDE OR GNOME?