DragonFly BSD

Reader supplied reviews for DragonFly BSD Average rating 7.5 from 8 review(s) What are your thoughts on DragonFly BSD? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 6.4.06.2.26.0.05.8.05.4.35.2.24.8.14.6.04.4.13.82.101.12 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 6.4.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-10-21 Votes: 13 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.2.2 Rating: 1 Date: 2022-08-11 Votes: 0 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!... Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.2.1 Rating: 7 Date: 2022-02-21 Votes: 14 I apologize in advance for my English, I'm from Eastern Europe and this language is almost never used here, like the BSD system in general, except for MacOS of course. I have been a Debian user for over 10 years now, all servers and home workstations have always been running Debian. But sometimes I also use BSD systems, and lately they have been of interest to me. DragonflyBSD looks like a very interesting alternative to Free/Open/Net, with very promising features of its Hammer file system (especially in my case after my experience with OpenBSD, although it has its advantages. I decided to try DragonflyBSD as a desktop for everyday use and I was surprised, but also very disappointed.I usually use KDE Plasma with the presence of all its original components.And what a disappointment that the current version contains a broken SDDM login manager.It was very sad to find out that the packages received into the system are not tested and do not pass any tests , this is a very bad sign and any trust in everything else disappears, just as it turned out on the example of a recent sitation with wireguard in FreeBSD :( But I still recommend trying it at least as a file server (NFS, Samba, sftp, etc Especially its alternative to the usual sofware raid implementation will surprise you greatly DragonflyBSD is a very fast system, with quite fast burst manager, especially if you switch the repository to the mirror closest to you - it will be very good. There are downsides, like many other operating systems and distributions. Just don't try to use it on a KDE Plasma desktop :) Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 8 reader reviews of DragonFly BSD...