14 DAY TRIAL // Matthew Dillon recently announced the release of his DragonFly 2.2, a FreeBSD based distribution. First featured in version 2.0, the HAMMER filesystem has reached a production-ready state. DragonFly 2.2 boasts highly improved stability, updated and new drivers, and an improved pkgsrc support. A new release infrastructure with multiple target option is also available. DragonFly 2.2 comes in three flavors: a bare-bones CD and USB disk-key image, plus a DVD ISO with a complete X environment, and many pre-installed packages.
Here are some of DragonFly 2.2 highlights:
· The CD and DVD images contain full pkgsrc tar and full sources tar; · The installer supports HAMMER filesystem setups; · intr_mpsafe control is enabled by default; · Experimental AMD64 support; · Parallel-working bridge_input; · Update to acpi_cpu(4), allowing higher C states than C1 in multicore CPUs; · HW checksum support added to the loopback interface for doubled performance; · Fixed some bugs that occurred during low-memory situations (low or no swap); · priv_* implementation form FreeBSD replaces suser_*; · Many improvements to the pageout and low-memory handling code; · Support for network cards using the RealTek 8102EL PCIe 10/100baseTX chipset; · Polling support for jme(4); · The source repositories are now maintained through git; · Hunt, a new terminal-based multiplayer game; · A script that cleans up HAMMER partitions during the night; · Fixed many warnings that occurred in some userland tools; · The default gcc(1) architecture is now i486; · The dntpd can now connect to NTP servers using IPv5 addresses; · Squashed several installer bugs; · nrelease can generate USB stick images.
Read the full DragonFly BSD 2.2 changelog here. About DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD was developed by Matthew Dillon in June 2003 as a fork from FreeBSD 4.8. DragonFly BSD's goal is to create a single system image across multiple computers. To reach that goal, the DragonFly team constantly improves its code and brings changes from other BSD systems as well.
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