Version: 5.6.0
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-07-04
Votes: 1
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Great Filesystem but setup is "pain in the a**"
It's impossible to setup Xfce for a BSD newbee.
No Live CD with Gui. No Graphical installer.
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Version: 5.6.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-24
Votes: 2
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I've been using this fine BSD variant for years now.
I am fascinated that OS upgrades are so painless (you have to build from source though), and although it does happen that bugs crawl in some packages after major upgrades, they get fixed for the next minor release.
Overall, this really *is* a production-ready OS for any serious, real-world server application and IMHO, anyone seeking that kind of application should at least give the OS a try. For desktop work, you have to settle for the famously baroque X-Org. This is *not* the place to try MATE, GNOME & co! (though there are nevertheless packages for them if you are feeling adventurous)
Only real downside is that it only runs on AMD64 hardware. Others have hailed this focus, but I find it a serious competitive disadvantage in a corporate environment. I wish they would port this system to other architectures - and I am not talking about legacy/obscure ones like macppc or VAX, but of serious, modern ones like SPARC, MIPS and RISC-V.
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Version: 5.4.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-15
Votes: 18
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Despite finding it difficult to use at first coming from Linux, I have come to love the special features that the OS offers and which make life easier, most notably its fsck-free filesystem, its lightweight mail agent and its easy-to-use NTP daemon. I have successfully and seamlessly run samba and ssh servers and done real desktop work in a 10-year-old laptop without a glitch. I can only recommend it, specially if you are willing to leave your Linux comfort zone where everything is already there and configured.
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Version: 5.2.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-06-18
Votes: 20
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One of the most stable OSs I have ever tried.
Note that this is a "do-it-yourself" distro. You won't get any office package, browser or special software out-of-the-box.If you do not mind that or want to learn UNIX basics (from networking all the way to customising your desktop environment), then this is the right OS for you to try.
I have been using it in different computers for more than a year now, at home and at work, and my only two complaints would be 1) Hardware compatibility is very limited regarding wireless adapters (of course you can work around just using ethernet which is faster and more stable anyway) and 2) its implementation of the MATE desktop is humble and tends to cause trouble after package upgrades. The bare-bones XOrg works perfectly, though.
Last but not least, very helpful team in IRC indeed, I really appreciate that.
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Version: 5.0.2
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-04-08
Votes: 7
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I like what the DragonFly BSD team tries to do, but its ports system has its quirks, including software which does not build and software which is just not there after the installation. I have no doubt that the DragonFly BSD base system works as expected, but the ports system needs more reliability in order to be adequate for more than just a hobby OS.
After they dismissed pkgsrc and replaced it by DPorts, John Marino from the DragonFly BSD team is working on the not yet included RavenPorts, some kind of a "better pkgsrc", which has proven more reliable at least for me. I wish they could make it the official ports system - if they do, I'll revise my review.
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Version: 5.0.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-02-25
Votes: 4
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Currently running a 5.1-DEVELOPMENT snapshot, with MATE desktop environment
Dragonfly gives the impression of a small (as compared to a large faceless project) friendly family type progressive community OS which concentrates on perfecting its operating system for more modern hardware (ie 64 bit only), following the UNIX concept of “doing one thing and doing it well”.
I have had no problems finding and installing binary packages using pkg
performance is good
Two problems I did note (keep in mind that I am not running a stable release, but a current snapshot)
is that the system seams to be constantly probing the DVD player and fills dmesg and xconsole with the message
ahci0.4: TFES RFIS-34 flg=40 st=51 err=20 dev=40 off=0/1536
but after putting a DVD in drive, message stops
also Firefox crashes occasionally (never had this problem when running a stable release).
Tried using a modern Nvidia GeForce 210 graphics card, but did not get widescreen, so I tried downloading the FreeBSD driver (340.106) from Nivida website and following the “Additional Information”. But was getting a vnode error when compiling.
So I removed Nvidia card and widescreen works well with Intel integrated graphics.
Note that I had done the same as above a few years ago with a Nvidia Geforce 6150 LE GPU (304 legacy) and compiling/install worked with no problems
another advantage is that since DragonFlyBSD is a fork of FreeBSD, allot of the FreeBSD documentation is applicable.
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Version: 5.0.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-10-16
Votes: 2
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I want to like Dragonfly.
I never learned how to use IRC and googling for problem fixes does not provide much. Just installed the newest version in VirtualBox, with the Xfce desktop, and it still has problems with my Logitech wireless mouse. Mouse works fine until I log into Xfce, then it freezes. Sometimes I can get a second mouse pointer, but the first one is still there frozen. Try changing USB and mouse settings. Try setting pointing device to (multi-touch-tablet) even if it is not.
Also the Control key will not release the mouse, I have to completely shut down Dragonfly to get
control of the mouse again.
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Version: 4.8.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-08-31
Votes: 3
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Fantastic team on IRC, a very easy to use system with good performance and defaults, focus on x86_64 with no other arches dragging down development, a fantastic system all-round!
Lacks in some features such as having mandatory access control however, and the lack of binary upgrades stresses my older PCs.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-07-14
Votes: 7
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Using it on my desktop machines, since FreeBSD does not (yet) support Broadwell/Skylake/Kabylake graphics. Fast and stable, think I will stay with it.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-06-02
Votes: 1
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The DragonFly has such fine feature as swapcache with utilization of SSD drive as a cache for HAMMER filesystem metadata/data. I use it in production to boost performance of PostgreSql databases which started to fly after applying a swapcache. The HAMMER itself looks as a fast, power-fault resistant which makes the DragonFly very strong in data serving aspect. For desktop/laptop, IMHO, it's not so good as for servers, all the X/apps stack looks very similar to what FreeBSD has.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-05-16
Votes: 1
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x64 commitment is the main scoring point of dragonFly. Accommodating other architectures is other kernels main weakness.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-05-11
Votes: 8
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Very very nice, but documentation is scarce. Ask Google about a FreeBSD Problem, and you get many hits; ask about a DragonFly problem, and you're left in the desert.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-04-29
Votes: 11
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Very fast, very responsive, no worries about fsck on boot with immediate recovery. Works great for servers, VMs, NAS, laptops, and desktops. Uses the same packaging system as FreeBSD so you have over 20,000 packages available for easy install. Best of all, the community. Small, tightly knit, really intelligent developers. If you ever have a problem, you can bring it up to them, and the odds are that if they're not overly busy or it's critical that it'll get a fix in within a day or two.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-04-29
Votes: 3
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A very nice combination of simplicity and performance. Very good Intel graphics support, and a large collection of third-party applications.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-04-27
Votes: 0
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Super fast and lean BSD. Can't wait for Hammer 2.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-04-26
Votes: 0
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Very probably the fastest Unix available. Developers really take "KISS" seriously and the pace of development is nicely paced. Once HAMMER2 is available and ready for prime time, this will be the OS to take cloud computing to the next level.
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Version: 4.8.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-04-07
Votes: 0
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Probably the best operating system I've ever tried.
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