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DragonFly BSD 2.2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the big-essin'-deal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DragonFly BSD 2.2 is now available. The second release to feature the HAMMER (versioning, among other things) filesystem — now considered production-ready — it includes 'major stability improvements across the board, new drivers, much better pkgsrc support and integration.' Apart from the CD ISO, this release has a DVD ISO with 'a fully operational X environment,' as well as a bootable USB disk-key image."

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  1. Good to see by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...that somebody in BSD land is doing something genuinely different, and making it work.

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  2. Re:Where have you been? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OS X is a kludge.

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  3. Re:Where have you been? by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OSX benefits from a foundation of Open Source software and a userland developed with a centralized control that holds the developer's paychecks.
    The scratch-an-itch method of development works great for the kernel, but can get a little messy in the GUI.
    That is one reason I think MS could survive doing the same thing Apple did with OSX.