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DragonFly BSD Release 2.4
DragonFly BSD has announced the release of
DragonFly 2.4. "Three release options are now available: Our
bare-bones CD ISO, a DVD ISO which includes a fully operational X
environment, and a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (1G disk keys
recommended). In addition we will for the first time be shipping a 64-bit
ISO. 64-bit support is stable but there will only be limited pkgsrc support
in this release."
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DragonFly BSD Release 2.4 Posted Sep 24, 2009 6:27 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
While DragonFly has fulfilled few of the promises it had after splitting off from FreeBSD some years ago -- its SMP is still limited and clustering is far in the future -- it does offer one unique feature, a new filesystem (HAMMER) that rivals ZFS in features (going beyond it, in some ways) and, judging by their mailing lists, is pretty stable and reliable now.
It is far beyond my ability to attempt a Linux port, but I wish someone would do so. A read-only port was done but not really finished, and anyway read-only would not be very useful.
DragonFly BSD Release 2.4 Posted Sep 24, 2009 19:05 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670) [Link]
Would not a FreeBSD port be easier? Or has there been a lot of VFS changes in Dragonfly, making such a port harder than one might think?
DragonFly BSD Release 2.4 Posted Sep 25, 2009 2:21 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
According to Matt Dillon, there have been a lot of changes, to the buffer cache in particular; plus there is politics. FreeBSD has a ZFS port, though, that seems fairly widely used (no licensing issues). Matt too considered ZFS before deciding it was inadequate for what he wanted, and writing his own filesystem.
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