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DragonFly BSD Announces 1.0RC1

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Re:Suffer fools gladly by jazman_777 · · Score: 2, Funny
    When you find clear reasons why one operating system is superior over another for any given application, please let me know.

    OpenBSD. Security. Code audits. Secure default install. Welcome to 2004.

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  2. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good news, everyone!
    Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
    According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
    There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
    You can read more about FreeBSD here

    If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
    Enjoy!

  3. Re:Suffer fools gladly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Old VAXStations and VMEBus junk? What masochist would even bother trying to get that stuff to run?

    Apparently you've never worked on a government project if you can ask that question.