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DragonFly BSD 2.2 Released
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."
First post to say it's NOT dead!
-- I have a private email server in my basement.
...that somebody in BSD land is doing something genuinely different, and making it work.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
like johnny 5!!!
Hmmm, 4 posts and it's slashdotted? I hope their server isn't running on BSD, for the sake of its publicity :)
Nice to see something new. BSD > Linux
Someone in BSD land already DID do something different and something that works. In fact, it is so different, and works so well that it is now the most popular version of Unix ever made, eclipsing every other version of BSD and Linux by many orders of magnitude. It is used by anyone who has work to do and is sick of the hassles of the "open sores" development model and the unreliability of Windows.
It's called "OS X", and it is made by Apple.
I was able to get in before it was fully slashdotted (it was crawling when there were only two posts here).
Here are some US mirrors:
CA ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/DragonFly/
TX ftp://mirror.evilprojects.net/pub/DragonFlyBSD/
VA ftp://ftp.theshell.com/pub/DragonFly/iso-images/
And some EU ones:
UK ftp://ftp.as6911.net/pub/DragonFly/
Germany ftp://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/
Here's the Release Notes:
Release Improvements
* A new DVD ISO release image is now available, in addition to the CD release. /usr. /usr.
* The new DVD release has a full X environment ready-to-go and many packages pre-installed.
* A full pkgsrc tar is now available on the CD/DVD in
* Full sources tar now available on the DVD (kernel sources only on the CD), in
* The nrelease build now trivializes package selection for people creating customized releases.
* The installer is now able to create a HAMMER filesystem setup.
Kernel changes
* First step towards AMD64 support (done by Jordan Gordeev during the Google Summer of Code 2008). /kernel to /boot/kernel and /modules to /boot/modules.
* The system control intr_mpsafe is enabled by default.
* Move
* Add RFC3542 support (done by Dashu Huang during the Google Summer of Code 2008).
* Add HW checksum support to the loopback interface, which doubles performance.
* acpi_cpu(4) update. It's now possible to use higher (lower power usage) C states than C1 in modern (multicore) CPUs.
* First steps to use network threads without the Big Giant Lock (this feature is considered experimental).
* Fixed CVE-2008-2476 IPv6 security issue with modified patches from NetBSD.
* bridge_input works now in parallel.
* Fix bugs in dealing with low-memory situations when the system has run out of swap or has no swap.
* Major rewrite of usched_bsd4 and related support logic, plus additional improvements to the LWKT scheduler.
* Major revamping of the pageout and low-memory handling code.
* suser_* replaced with priv_* implementation from FreeBSD.
HAMMER changes
* HAMMER is now considered production-capable. Many bug fixes and other improvements have been made. /boot. However, for production systems we still recommend a small UFS /boot followed by swap followed by one large HAMMER partition.
* It is now possible to boot from a HAMMER-only disk. No need for a single UFS partition for
* Add HAMMER read support to the boot loader.
* Now uses per-mount kmalloc pools for bulk data structures, particularly for inodes and records.
Hardware changes
* Add ACPI support module for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops (from FreeBSD).
* Add ACPI support module Asus laptops (from FreeBSD).
* Add acpi_video(4) - a driver for ACPI video extensions (from FreeBSD).
* It is possible to power down PCI devices during
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
So what you're saying is that efs2 and ffs/ufs can't touch this.
HAMMER TIME!
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
what's the deal with you xfs fanatics? I recently created a 300 gig xfs logical volume (for holding large media files) and exported it via nfs. After copying 4 files to it (less than 2 gigs of data), it had fucked itself up and was completely unrecoverable. syslog showed it barfing and a quick google search showed this was a fairly common problem. Seriously, I want to know: does xfs suck, or do the linux kernel developers suck?
Since I just misread it on freshmeat, I thought I'd share the scrotum WM, written to scratch an itch as they say...
http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html
Way to bollox up the title of your project...
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
80MB root is clean. The modem sings
Its handshake and your tired rant,
Warm on amber screen, is a comfort
To me; As perennial as the rain.
Poor Matt sure does take his grudges seriously, doesn't he? 2.2 Versions too seriously, apparently. Another project that was forked out of bitterness and overinflated egos that nobody except the losers making the loud noise care about.