DragonFly BSD Announces 1.0RC1

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday June 28, 2004 @01:54AM from the so-close-to-release-it-hurts dept.

CoolVibe writes "Matt Dillon announced the availability of DragonFly BSD's 1.0 Release Candidate #1. Get it at Dragonfly BSD's site (please use a mirror or post mirrors as comments). Changes and features include: variant symbolic links, UDF support, lightweight kernel threads, message passing, GCC 3.4 in the tree, binutils 2.14, Kernighan's awk 2004-02-07, BIND 9.2.4 rc4, CVS 1.12.8, libpcap 0.8.3, tcpdump 3.8.3, less 381, MMX/XMM kernel optimizations are now on by default, greatly improving bcopy/bzero/copyin/copyout performance for large (>4K) buffers, XIO, acpica5, new AC'97 codec support, network stack revamping, long standing bug fixes for wide variety of support and stability issues, and way, way, way more. A new installer is also in the works that uses DragonFly's new CAPS IPC mechanism. The installer beta is available from LiveBSD. (Not updated to RC1 just yet, but it gives a nice idea of the progess made)"

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Re:Suffer fools gladly by eeg3 · 2004-06-28 09:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Being a unfriendly about it will definitely not win the project users. Unless one is writing a bsd-variant to be used by 5 people, it's better to try being diplomatic with one's attitude regarding such. Unless, of course, you want to end up with a reputation rivalling that of Mr. de Raadt. Of course, you have the freedom to speak as you which, just making a suggestion.
Re: Welcome to the same hell by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-28 14:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Dipshit.

ProPolice enabled by default, replacing of unsafe string functions from many ports, systrace, etc.