DragonFly BSD

News and releases from DragonFly BSD, the fork that charted its own course on SMP scalability and storage with the HAMMER filesystem.

  

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.

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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.

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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 been made, thanks to the Google Summer of Code 2008. For a complete list of changes and release notes have a look at the DragonFly 2.

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