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DragonFly BSD 5.0 Released

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-the-BSD-desktop dept.

Celestial writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:35PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:35PM (#583700)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:49PM (#583704)

    These operating systems put the BSD in BDSM!

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:16PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:16PM (#583718)

      They do code perl...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @02:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @02:11AM (#583762)

        Clearly, the grandparent is the funny, witty comment—not this repetitive Perl rubbish.

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 18 2017, @04:46PM

        by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday October 18 2017, @04:46PM (#584006) Journal

        but do they give perl necklaces?
        XD

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  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:12PM

    by t-3 (4907) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:12PM (#583715)

    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

    by Celestial (4891) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:48PM (#583728) Journal

    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)

    by jimtheowl (5929) on Wednesday October 18 2017, @12:52AM (#583745)
    "there is so much BSD recently"

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:17AM (#583821)

      > Where do you think your IP stack comes from?
      the NSA?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:07AM (#583746)

    There's https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_FreeBSD [gentoo.org] but reading my own link, it appears to be pining for the fjords.