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DragonFly BSD: Daily Snapshots Available

Posted by michael on from the live-dangerously dept.

Dan writes "Simon Schubert has offered to provide Daily Snapshots of DragonFly. The snapshots are available on FTP and HTTP. Simon says this is for users who want to give DragonFlyBSD a try and don't want to go through the FreeBSD4/cvsup/buildworld steps., and as a world tinderbox (logs are available for each run). DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series. These operating systems belong in the same class as Linux in that they are based on UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly is a fork in the path, so to speak, giving the BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely new direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series."

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  1. The daily snapshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The daily snapshots would be far more usefull if they installed correctly. Sysinstall can't install any of the dists, and attempting to do so from the shell also proved ineffective. Sad really, as I think that DragonFly has great potential, and I love to try it. Building it from source has never worked for me either.

    To be fair, until they get all the messaging stuff done, it still primarilly "developers only", but as they hope to do all of this in small, "bite sized chunks", it's inexcusable that the installer doesn't work.

    I so look forward to seeing it in action...

  2. Re:I think these Linux guys are seriously scared by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Like the adolescent who's not in the popular social circle, they become overley defiant in any and all ways possible.

    No, here on Slashdot they are in the popular circle -- Linux (and Windows). They get some heady thrill from being in the popular group for once. It's kind of sad how they keep autistically posting the same thing over and over.