DragonFlyBSD 1.2 Released

Posted by timothy on Monday April 11, 2005 @09:00AM from the live-cd-bsd dept.

vsarunas writes "The DragonFlyBSD Team is pleased to announce the official release of DragonFly 1.2.0! Get it here, or here, or as a torrent. DragonFlyBSD is a continuation of the stable and high-performance FreeBSD 4 branch of FreeBSD with acpica5 and updated drivers so it runs on more and newer machines. DragonFlyBSD can execute FreeBSD 4 and Linux binaries and uses the FreeBSD ports collection. In addition, DragonFlyBSD is also officially supported by pkgsrc. This release represents a significant milestone in efforts to improve the kernel infrastructure. It features a standards-conformant SACK implementation, improvements to the VFS layer, and a multithreaded networking stack that utilizes the DragonFly lightweight message passing system to communicate among processors. More information can be found on Matt Dillon's journal and the Status page of the DragonFly wiki."

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FreeBSD ports broken all the time by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-11 10:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

Have you tried to build any of those ports on FreeBSD? When I try it, I always have massive trouble with broken ports on FreeBSD. There are even periodic commit messages on the FreeBSD cvs-ports mailing list where huge numbers of ports get marked as broken and unbuildable in one fell sweep. Since DragonFlyBSD just uses the FreeBSD ports collection, you're basically taking your chances trying to compile any port.