Reader supplied reviews for DragonFly BSD
Average rating
7.2 from 9 review(s)
Version: 6.4.0
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-12-22
Votes: 0
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As a project, I wanted to try something different. Above all, I was curious as to the Hammer2 system, and also towards the supposedly fast speed of the Dragonfly OS.
But... I never got near installing it. The text on their site says "[...] If you use a USB .img file, it needs to be copied to a USB key directly. Use dd on unix-like systems [...]" And so I did. Bunzipped the image file, used dd to write it on a 1.7 giga usb stick. It did not boot.
Retried, this time using MX's GUI usb creator tool. Destination, the 1.7 G usb stick on /dev/sda, pointed the input to the dfly-x86_64-6.4.0_REL.img file on my hdd and... the usb tool stopped with "an encountered error".
So I left it with that. It sounds all interesting, but I got beached at the very simple task of creating the boot-usb.
Conclusion: this one is above my pay-grade, I'll keep an eye on it but will leave it to more skilled people to try it out. For myself, I will continue my experimentation with FreeBSD for now.
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Version: 6.4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-10-21
Votes: 39
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An excellent BSD system, but obviously it's not meant to be a replacement for Windows or Ubuntu. Some people should just stick with those operating systems if they can't manage a BSD. I use and prefer NetBSD myself, but I'm happy to acknowledge the distinguishing features of other BSDs. In the case of DragonFly BSD, the main selling point might be the Hammer file system, which is now at Hammer2. The project has also introduced the hypervisor NVVM, formerly developed on NetBSD. This had some excellent security advantages over, say, KVM on Linux, but unfortunately the main developer is prone to go missing. All in all, however, DragonFly BSD is a promising project, and one that I keep my eye on, even if I don't (yet?) use it as a desktop or server.
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Version: 6.2.2
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-08-11
Votes: 0
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1) No GUI Live CD/DVD, to start with. (There's been back then, in the times of version 3.0...)
2) Non-intuitive text-mode Live USB. (You cannot write the ISO file on a USB stick with e.g. Rufus, you need the IMG file!)
3) Very non-intuitive hard disk notations, e.g. ad14. When the Dell Precision T3500 BIOS can name them Intel0 (RAID 1 storage), WDC160... (Western Digital 160 GB), etc. (also a 2-TB Seagate drive), why DragonFly BSD can't be at least that user-friendly?!!
4) I formatted the Western Digital 160 GB from within the Disk Tools of DragonFly BSD. However, the damn thing also wrote a GRUB on my main storage with a fresh Windows 10 installation, the Intel0 (RAID 1). After I restarted and removed the DragonFly BSD USB stick, Windows won't boot (I am left with a GRUB Rescue session). Moreover, the Windows 10 installer USB now complains that there is a missing media driver (supposedly of the Intel's RAID-capable chipset), and won't continue. It won't do any Repair of the Startup issue, because it cannot find the existing Windows 10 installation. (But it reads all the drives and their folder structure, although with some arbitrary drive letters, e.g. X: (Boot).)
Conclusion: Immature, no GUI Live medium nor installer, and it breaks other things.
Recommendation: Stay away (unless you are The Skynet and know what you are doing)!...
The worst distro that I've ever tried from DistroWatch, by the way!...
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