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DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released

posted by on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:11PM   
from the the-other-other-other-other-OS dept.

Celestial writes:

The DragonFly BSD developers have released version 4.8 of the operating system. It now supports EFI, and AMD Ryzen CPUs.

DragonFly version 4.8 brings EFI boot support in the installer, further speed improvements in the kernel, a new NVMe driver, a new eMMC driver, and Intel video driver updates.

[...] AMD Ryzen support is in the release and further work will be brought in as new Ryzen developments occur. There are some cpu-reported-topology issues that will be fixed and MFC'd. There are some stability issues currently waiting on an AMD microcode update to resolve/retest. Ryzen users can be assured that we are staying on top of it!

Instructions for updating your DragonFly BSD OS to 4.8 are given in the link above.

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• Re:Yes, but does it run Linux? Re:Yes, but does it run Linux? (Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:38PM (1 child)

  by Bot (3902) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:38PM (#486005) Journal

  I can already hear the squabbles at the nerdconferences:

  - "an emulation layer will not ever work as well"
  - "it will"
  - "how come?"
  - "no systemd"
  - "well played man, well played"

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• Re:Yes, but does it run Linux? (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday March 30 2017, @03:51PM

  by kaszz (4211) on Thursday March 30 2017, @03:51PM (#486535) Journal

  Without systemd there is a future :P

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