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I have just installed DragonFlyBSD 1.0 on my home pc (under a virtual machine).
It looks very neat. Installer looks very good and is very easy while it is very configurable. Boot process is much like FBSD 5.x, except that elf deamon ASCII art has changed to DragonFly mascot. syslogd is disabled by default, while nfs client is enabled. Default perl interpreter is version 5.005 ( I expected it to be 5.6 ). And the installer CD does not include the source code. You have to cvsup it by yourself.
Since it is installed in a virtual machine (MS Virtual PC 2004, because I had no VMware installed), I can not perform real world tests. I will install it on a standalone machine and will post my observations as soon as I test it.
Many thanks to DragonFly team for their excellent job.
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I don’t really get the goal of dragonfly.
They did split from freebsd 4. But why did they disagree with FreeBSD 5 dev?
I couldn’t find a straight forward answer, and I have no box to install it, neither the time.
DragonFly BSD 1.0
I have just installed DragonFlyBSD 1.0 on my home pc (under a virtual machine).