The DragonFly BSD developers have released version 5.0 of the operating system. The big changes are the introduction of the HAMMER2 file system, video driver updates, and better support for both AMD Ryzen and EFI.
DragonFly version 5.0 brings the first bootable release of HAMMER2, DragonFly's next generation file system.
[...] Preliminary HAMMER2 support has been released into the wild as-of the 5.0 release. This support is considered EXPERIMENTAL and should generally not yet be used for production machines and important data. The boot loader will support both UFS and HAMMER2 /boot. The installer will still use a UFS /boot even for a HAMMER2 installation because the /boot partition is typically very small and HAMMER2, like HAMMER1, does not instantly free space when files are deleted or replaced.
A lengthy, in-depth technical design document of the new HAMMER2 file system can be found here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:35PM (9 children)
I'm just asking questions since there is so much BSD recently
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:49PM (3 children)
These operating systems put the BSD in BDSM!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:16PM (2 children)
They do code perl...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @02:11AM
Clearly, the grandparent is the funny, witty comment—not this repetitive Perl rubbish.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 18 2017, @04:46PM
but do they give perl necklaces?
XD
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(Score: 2) by t-3 on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:12PM
Personally, I'd be running OpenBSD on everything if the hardware support was there. My Odroid XU4 and MacBook Air are all that's still running Linux, but even there it's a more BSDish userland - musl(on the MacBook, ARM is enough of a headache as is, although it's tempting to try), crux ports, many ported OpenBSD utilities, very little gnu.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Celestial on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:48PM
I'm not an admin, but I've followed DragonFly BSD since it's inception in the early '00s due to Matthew Dillon's work on the Amiga. Sadly, I'm no longer young, I'm not a programmer, and I enjoy playing video games too much, so I don't use it myself. But I like to share news of its releases for those who would be interested in using it as many people are unaware of its existence. Plus, this is the first release with a bootable HAMMER2 file system which is quite large news in the BSD world.
(Score: 3, Informative) by jimtheowl on Wednesday October 18 2017, @12:52AM (1 child)
What does that even mean? Where do you think your IP stack comes from?
Certain admins may have second thoughts about a lot of things, but why should gentoo be one of them?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:17AM
> Where do you think your IP stack comes from?
the NSA?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:07AM
There's https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_FreeBSD [gentoo.org] but reading my own link, it appears to be pining for the fjords.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday October 18 2017, @04:43PM (1 child)
I'm not a BSD user, but I sort of like to follow the news, so I know that, e.g., OpenBSD is aimed at security, and PCBSD is aimed at end users coming from MSWindows.
Who is DragonFly aimed at? I know it's one of the earlier BSDs. My guess is that the target audience is the target is BSD users who want to experiment with new features...but that's a guess.
What would *really* make me interested in BSD is a system with read-write support for ext4, but I haven't seen such. (Read support, yes, but that doesn't suffice. Even read/write support for ext3 would be quite interesting.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Celestial on Thursday October 19 2017, @11:11AM
The primary goal of DragonFly BSD is to be a "performant reliable bare metal server operating system." Thus, the HAMMER1 and HAMMER2 file systems.
However, some people use it as their personal computers' operating system as well, including the lead developer.