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DragonFly 2.4 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the four-wings dept.

electrostaticcarrot writes "DragonFly — that fourth major BSD — has had its 2.4 release. The 'most invasive change' is the addition and usage of a DevFS for /dev; building on this, drives are now also recognized by serial number (along with /etc/devtab for aliases) as listed in /dev/serno. This is also the first release with a x86-64 ISO, stable but with limited pkgsrc support. Other larger changes include a ported and feature-extended (with full hotplug and port multiplier support) AHCI driver (and SILI driver based on it) originally taken from OpenBSD, major NFS changes, and HAMMER updates. A pkgsrc GIT mirror has also been set up and put in use to make future pkgsrc updates quicker and smoother. Here are two of the mirrors."

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  1. Re:step-by-step, right? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    devfs? and the next release will switch to udev presumably?

    Additionally it will be called 'Dreamy DragonFly,' and feature a suspiciously familiar-looking brown GNOME theme....

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  2. Fear by grub · · Score: 3, Funny


    that fourth major BSD â" has had its 2.4 release

    Six more BSDs and they will officially go from "mindless roving undead" to "collectively intelligent zombie horde."

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