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| 2009-09-16 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 2.4 |
| Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 2.4, a general-purpose operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 4.x: "The DragonFly 2.4 release is here! Three release options are now available: a bare-bones CD image, a DVD image which includes a fully operational X environment, and a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image. In addition we will for the first time be shipping a 64-bit ISO image. 64-bit support is stable but there will only be limited 'pkgsrc' support in this release. DragonFly BSD 2.4 is a bigger release than normal. The single most invasive change is the introduction of DEVFS. The /dev file system is now mounted by the kernel after it mounts the root file system. All major and minor numbers have changed and the old /dev is no longer meaningful." Read the detailed release announcement for a complete list of changes and upgrade notes. Download (MD5): dfly-gui-2.4.0_REL.iso.gz (722MB), dfly-2.4.0_REL.img.gz (217MB), dfly-amd64-2.4.0_REL.iso.gz (219MB). |
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| 2009-04-30 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 2.2.1 |
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| Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 2.2.1, a BSD operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 4: "The new 2.2 release includes Hammer, a file system that includes instant crash recovery, multi-volume file systems, data integrity checking, fine grained history retention, and the ability to mirror data to other volumes. It has undergone extensive stress-testing and is considered production-ready!" Other changes include: "Fixes for libthread_xu: MAP_STACK and an errno leak; fixed an installworld failure due to kernel fixes and a libthread_xu issue; installer now works correctly in the console, and properly creates device files if they don't exist; updates for msdosfs, pax(1), and magic(3); allowed uid/gid/flags changes to fail if running cpdup as a user...." Read the full release notes for additional details. Download (MD5): dfly-2.2.1_REL.iso.gz (184MB), dfly-gui-2.2.1_REL.iso.gz (516MB). |
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| 2009-02-17 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 2.2 |
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| Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 2.2, a BSD operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 4.8: "The DragonFly 2.2 release is here! The HAMMER file system is considered production-ready in this release; it was first released in July 2008. The 2.2 release represents major stability improvements across the board, new drivers, much better pkgsrc support and integration, and a brand new release infrastructure with multiple target options. Three release options are now available - our bare-bones CD ISO, a DVD ISO which includes a fully operational X environment, and a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (less than 512M). We offer over 7,300 pre-built pkgsrc packages for this release. The pkg_radd(1) utility may be used to download pre-built binary packages. By default, this script will query the main package site for a random redirect to one of our mirrors." Read the detailed release notes for further information. Download (MD5): dfly-gui-2.2.0_REL.iso.gz (515MB), dfly-2.2.0_REL.iso.gz (183MB). |
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| 2008-09-03 |
Development Release: DragonFly BSD 2.1-DEVEL "Live DVD" |
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| Louisa Luciani has announced the release of DragonFly BSD live DVD, an installable live image of the current DragonFly BSD development tree, which boots into Fluxbox as its graphical desktop: "The first version of the DragonFly BSD live DVD is done! Besides the full DragonFly BSD base system, the DVD includes an X desktop, a basic set of utilities and applications, and installation tools. Certain directories, are remounted read-write using MFS, and without swap this live DVD will not work well with less than 256 MB of RAM. This live DVD is meant to be useful for testing hardware compatibility, and some core aspects of the DragonFly BSD operating system. Please keep in mind though that it is undergoing development and should still be considered experimental. As always, back up important data before making any changes to your hard disk." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details and screenshots. Download: dfly-guidvd-2.1A.iso.bz2 (392MB). |
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| 2008-07-22 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 2.0 |
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| Matthew Dillon announced the availability of DragonFly BSD 2.0: "2.0 is our eighth major DragonFly release. DragonFly's policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches." Changes in this release include: the HAMMER filesystem featuring crash recovery on-mount (without fsck) and queueless incremental mirroring, numerous kernel changes like native fairq-queue implementation and native connection state recovery, various hardware changes like added drivers and better USB survivability, userland changes like blacklist for weak Debian-generated SSH keys and improved manual pages and documentation, a lot of contributed software like new versions of BIND, OpenSSH, tnftpd, and GCC. Fortran was removed from the base system, along with other old stuff like legacy device drivers. See the rather brief release announcement and the detailed 2.0 release notes for more information. Download (MD5): dfly-2.0.0_REL.iso.gz (129MB, torrent). |
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| 2008-04-21 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.12.2 |
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| Matthew Dillon has announced the availability of an updated release of DragonFly BSD, version 1.12.2: "DragonFly BSD 1.12.2 released. A significant number of bug and security fixes have been merged from current to the 1.12 branch over the last two months and we have rolled a new sub-release, 1.12.2, for the benefit of our users. We recommend that 1.12 users upgrade. In addition there is a known issue related to building pkgsrc packages from source which is addressed in the above release notes. Basically the M4 package sources needs to be patched. This applies to HEAD users as well." Changes: "Fix wide symbols (wstring, wint_t etc) support in gcc41 (libstdc++); add libc support for gcc41 stack protector; update bzip2 to 1.0.5...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details and errata issues. Download (MD5): dfly-1.12.2_REL.iso.gz (124MB). |
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| 2008-02-27 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.12 |
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| Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 1.12, a BSD operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 4 in order to develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel sub-systems. "We are happy to say that the 1.12 release is now available! This release is primarily a maintenance update. A lot of work has been done all over the kernel and userland. There are no new big-ticket items though we have pushed the MP lock further into the kernel. The 2.0 release is scheduled for mid-year. Of the current big-ticket item work, the new HAMMER file system is almost at the alpha stage of development and is expected to be production ready by the mid-year 2.0 release." Read the release announcement and check out the detailed release notes for a complete list of changes. Download: dfly-1.12.0_REL.iso.gz (118MB, MD5). |
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| 2007-08-06 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.10 |
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| Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 1.10: "DragonFly 1.10 has been released!" From the release notes: "1.10 is our sixth major DragonFly release. Several big-ticket items are present in this release. Our default ATA driver has been switched to NATA (ported from FreeBSD). NATAs big claim to fame is support for AHCI which is the native SATA protocol standard. It is far, far better than the old ATA/IDE protocol. DragonFly now has non-booting support for GPT partitioning and 64-bit disklabels. Non-booting means we don't have boot support for these formats yet. DragonFly's Light Weight Process abstraction is now finished and working via libthread_xu but the default threading library is not quite ready to be changed from libc_r yet." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: dfly-1.10.0_REL.iso.gz (112MB, MD5). |
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| 2007-03-28 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.8.1 |
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| Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 1.8.1: "The DragonFly BSD 1.8.1 release is ready. Release notes: security updates for BIND, File, libmagic, and TCPDUMP; X.Org added to various paths, including periodic directories for cron and manual paths; the dynamic loader now properly searches objects, solving problems with a number of pkgsrc applications; the fwe network interface is now properly dependant on Firewire; a bug in Vinum was fixed; update the EST module (CPU voltage / frequency reporting); the virtual kernel now properly handles spurious SIGTRAPs; MFC a bug fix for SMBFS which fixes a kernel panic." Please see the complete release notes for further details. Download: dfly-1.8.1_REL.iso.gz (96.3MB, MD5). |
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| 2007-01-30 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.8 |
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| Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 1.8: "1.8 is our fifth major DragonFly release. DragonFly's policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches. The biggest kernel change in this release is the addition of virtual kernel support and a virtual kernel build target (VKERNEL). Virtual kernels are systems-in-a-box... you can run a complete kernel as a userland process. All standard non-hardware-specific applications will run inside the virtual kernel. Performance depends on how heavily an application interacts with the VM system and how often it makes system calls, since these operations have to bed forwarded by the real kernel to the virtual kernel." Find more information in the comprehensive release notes. Download: dfly-1.8.0_REL.iso.gz (96.3MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-07-25 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.6 |
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| DragonFly BSD 1.6 has been released: "1.6 is our fourth major DragonFly release. DragonFly's policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches. The biggest user-visible changes in this release are a new random number generator, a massive reorganisation of the 802.11 (wireless) framework, and extensive bug fixes in the kernel. We also made significant progress in pushing the big giant lock inward and made extensive modifications to the kernel infrastructure with an eye towards DragonFly's main clustering and userland VFS goals. We consider 1.6 to be more stable then 1.4." Find more details in the comprehensive announcement. Download: dfly-1.6.0_REL.iso.gz (94.0MB, MD5). DragonFly BSD is a fork of FreeBSD 4.x series, representing a logical continuation of the branch that proved itself to be one of the most stable and reliable FreeBSD releases ever built. |
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| 2006-01-08 |
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.4 |
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| DragonFly BSD 1.4 has been released: "1.4 is our third major DragonFly release. This release represents a significant milestone in our efforts to improve the kernel infrastructure. DragonFly is still running under the Big Giant Lock, but this will probably be the last release where that is the case. The greatest progress has been made in the network subsystem. The TCP stack is now almost fully threaded (and will likely be the first subsystem we remove the BGL from in coming months). The TCP stack now fully supports the SACK protocol and a large number of bug and performance fixes have gone in, especially in regard to GigE performance over LANs." Find more details in the comprehensive release notes. Download (MD5): dfly-1.4.0_REL.iso.gz (81.4MB). DragonFly BSD is a fork of FreeBSD 4.x series, representing a logical continuation of the branch that proved itself to be one of the most stable and reliable FreeBSD releases ever built. |
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| 2005-04-09 |
Distribution Release: DragonFly BSD 1.2.0 |
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| The second major release of DragonFly BSD is out: "This release represents a significant milestone in our efforts to improve the kernel infrastructure. DragonFly is still running under the Big Giant Lock, but this will probably be the last release where that is the case. The greatest progress has been made in the network subsystem. The TCP stack is now almost fully threaded... It goes without saying that this release is far more stable than our 1.0A release. A huge number of bug fixes, performance improvements, and design changes have been made since the 1.0A release." Find the release sites and the full release notes on dragonflybsd.org. Download: dfly-1.2.0_REL.iso.gz (81.5MB). |
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| 2004-08-09 |
DragonFly BSD 1.0A: A Strong Start |
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| NewsForge has published a review of the recently released DragonFly BSD 1.0A: "I'm impressed with the efforts of Matt Dillon and the rest of the DragonFly team -- I think they've come a long way in a relatively short period of time. If they can manage to continue on the same track, DragonFly will easily overshadow FreeBSD in terms of technical merit, code quality, and performance. At this point I would not consider it for production use, as it just doesn't seem to work very well and it's difficult to ascertain which Ports will install and which will error out." The full story.
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| 2004-07-13 |
Distribution Release: DragonFly BSD 1.0 |
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| The first stable version of DragonFly BSD is out: "One year after starting the project as a fork off the FreeBSD-4.x tree, the DragonFly Team is pleased to announce our 1.0 release! We've made remarkable progress in our first year. We have replaced nearly all of the core threading, process, interrupt, and network infrastructure with DragonFly native subsystems. We have our own MP-friendly slab allocator, a Light Weight Kernel Threading (LWKT) system that is separate from the dynamic userland scheduler, a fine-grained system timer abstraction for kernel use...." Find the full announcement on dragonflybsd.org. Download: dfly-1.0REL.iso.gz (78.6MB); also available via BitTorrent. Update: Release updated to 1.0a (78.6MB) to fix a serious fdisk/slice issue with the installer. An xdelta patch is also available for people who have downloaded the original 1.0REL iso.
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| 2004-06-29 |
Development Release: DragonFly BSD 1.0 RC1 |
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| The first release candidate of DragonFly BSD 1.0 is out: "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 optimisations are now on by default, greatly improving bcopy/bzero/copyin/copyout performance for large (>4K) buffers, new installer program, 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." Find more information at BSD News, DragonFly BSD Digest and DragonFly kernel list. Download: dfly-1.0RC1.iso.gz (76.8MB). DragonFly BSD is a fork of FreeBSD with the goal of continuing the development of FreeBSD-4.x OS series.
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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