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The 2.10 release supports, thanks to updates of ACPI and APIC interrupt routing support, a much larger variety of hardware and multiprocessor systems than previous releases.
The Hammer Filesystem can now deduplicate volumes overnight in a batch process and during live operation. For estimation of space savings for existing …
Matthew Dillon is interviewed and asked about recent developments in DragonFlyBSD.
Original link: bsdtalk184 - DragonFlyBSD with Matthew Dillon
DragonFly 2.4 is a major release that brings a lot of new features, as you can read in their release notes.
There's also a 64-bit experimental version available. It is preferred that you choose a mirror site for downloads, for example Avalon or chlamydia.
One of the most interesting improvements made in DragonFly BSD are about the HAMMER filesystem which is now considered ready for productional use. It is also now possible to boot from a HAMMER-only disk, though this is still not recommended. On the kernel side first steps toward AMD64 support have …
