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pecan

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 93

Dragonfly BSD

Anyone ever installed and tried out dragonfly BSD before? I've always had a thing for BSD and I'm thinking of installing this on an older machine. What do you guys know about it?

vlado

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From: Tampere - Finland

Registered: 2005-03-20

Posts: 14

Re: Dragonfly BSD

Well, I did you FreeBSD for a while some time ago. Before DragonFly was forked...
Right now I am considering giving a try to PC-BSD. DragonFly still feels somehow experimental to me ;-)

oli

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2006-02-07

Posts: 164

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Re: Dragonfly BSD

@vlada, PCBSD is just a mere FreeBSD, but customized for desktop. DragonFlyBSD is a fork of FreeBSD 4.x. There is of course a massive lack of drivers for this fork, but it has got some nice technologies.

http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/

There you can follow the current development.

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/articl … rnel.shtml

Something about the virtual kernel.

It's using pkgsrc from NetBSD as package management.

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