Submitted by DragonFly BSD 1.6.0 has been released, and it includes a whole load of bigfixes and improvements. 1.6.0 Is the fourth bug-fix sub-release in the 1.6 release branch major DragonFly release. “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.”
I know you just copy&pasted from the release notes, but seems odd to call 1.6.0 “the fourth bug-fix sub-release in the 1.6 release branch”. Maybe they meant in the 1.0 release branch.
They must’ve corrected it by now:
1.6 is our fourth major DragonFly release. DragonFly’s policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches.
On another note: that’s one massive releaselist! A big list of new features and improvements.
What pains me is that I consider DragonflyBSD the OS that has the most exciting developments going on, but: it’s not usable for desktop use by a longshot (not too sure it’s ready for server-use either). There’s no DE yet, although recently I read of an XFCE beta, and there’s little ‘big’ software running on it from what I can tell, since porting to DfBSD is less straightforward than normal, especially in the absence of the major widget-platforms.
Of course, for such needs there are alternative platforms, but with DragonflyBSD I at least get the feeling it’s going places.
no DE, no widget-platforms ? There are KDE, Gnome,…Qt, Gtk… in fact the same software as NetBSD (through pkgsrc).
Of course it may not be fully “desktop ready” compared to Linux for example. Dragonfly has a lot of rough edges, evidently. But it is quite usable (if you are not a beginner in the *nix world of course).
Oops..it seems I missed quite a few developments since the last I heard. I was under the impression these didn’t compile/run correctly, since DFly had a different threading model and such. People must’ve done a lot of work since the previous review of DFly on OSNews:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13352&page=2
I think it used to say that “1.4.4 is the fourth bug-fix sub-release in the 1.4 release branch”, which means they released 4 bugfix updates to the previous release (1.4).
Maybe this page is inaccurate in other parts as well:
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/community/release1_6.cgi
E.g. there are two consecutive sections called “Release Notes for DragonFly 1.6.0”. I think the second one is about 1.6 and the previous one about 1.4, but I could be wrong.
KDE and associated apps run happily on my DragonFly system (1.5 development version). pkgsrc has loads of working packages.
http://www.metalinker.org/samples/dfly-1.6.0_REL.iso.gz.metalink
Clients: GetRight (Windows), aria2 (Unix), Speed Download (Mac)
…It’s moving along! This is some amazing stuff. I so wish I had a spare PC right now. So many things I want to be running.
NetBSD, DragonFly, PC-BSD…
Nevermind one spare, I need my own computer lab!
Me too….. my friend. What I like most, is the ability to delve in kernel code. Now, we need more human specs for Bluetooth (BT). Does anyone in this thread has to suggest a good BT book? Can I have the spec of BT2.0 in paper form? Is it expensive?
In paper it will probably cost you quite a lot, however it seems like you can get it for free from here (haven’t looked at it): http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/
A lot of this stuff also here https://www.bluetooth.org/
Thanks guys!!!
These holidays I will start studying. I migrate my FedoraCore5 from my athlonXP and I will install PC BSD. Time for kernel hacking!!!
As soon as Matt finishes integrating ZFS, I’m buying (or making) a small black cube case, plugging in four 500G SATA HDDs (by that time they should be under $200), an SFF motherboard and a cheap CPU. I figure that for about a grand, I could build my own 2TB NAS/server. With the cash leftover, I could probably make a little donation to a worthy OS development team
Seriously, though, this project is the cat’s pajamas and seems to be improving in leaps and bounds. Every time I turn around, DfBSD has inched a little bit closer to my hard drive.