DragonflyBSD

**kk0sse54** · September 3rd, 2008

Just wondering has anyone extensively used it before? Haven't read much about it since it seems to fly under the radar a lot but I'm quite interested in trying it, that and MidnightBSD. It uses pkgsrc so that's a plus for me, but I was just interested if there was someone, anyone who knows anything about it as I really can't seem to find much info on it other than the usual it split from FreeBSD became a fork etc etc

**cardinals_fan** · September 3rd, 2008

It's a great project that is definitely going places. Their pkgsrc implementation is a bit screwy, but it's still a fun project to play with. It isn't as stable [yet] as Net, Open, or FreeBSD.

**Antman** · September 3rd, 2008

Grab the LiveDVD they just announced and give it a whirl.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05066

**kk0sse54** · September 3rd, 2008

Originally Posted by Antman

Grab the LiveDVD they just announced and give it a whirl.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05066

That was exactly what I saw which prompted my curiosity

. What the heck I'll try it out, downloading now...

**kk0sse54** · December 11th, 2008

Necromany

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Anyways I finally bothered to installed DragonflyBSD instead of just trying out the liveDVD and it was really cool. Probably what's most interesting is the HAMMER filesystem which I think has a ton of potential. For those who don't know what it is http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/hammer.pdf kinda long and probably dry and boring to most people but oh well

. Anyways was just wondering if anybody else has tried DragonflyBSD recently along with the HAMMER filesystem and what their thoughts were about it.

**cardinals_fan** · December 12th, 2008

HAMMER is amazing. It's really made for systems with massive hard drives, but it's still cool.

**kk0sse54** · December 12th, 2008

From now on I think I'm just going to change the title of all my BSD related threads to "cardinals_fan what's your opinion on <insert BSD topic>"

**Sorivenul** · December 13th, 2008

HAMMER is fascinating.
Check out this article comparing it with Sun's ZFS.
Follow it up with some small corrections made by DragonFlyBSD's Matt Dillon.

**cardinals_fan** · December 13th, 2008

Originally Posted by C!oud

From now on I think I'm just going to change the title of all my BSD related threads to "cardinals_fan what's your opinion on <insert BSD topic>"

Hey, I like BSD systems

Originally Posted by Sorivenul

HAMMER is fascinating.
Check out this article comparing it with Sun's ZFS.
Follow it up with some small corrections made by DragonFlyBSD's Matt Dillon.

Good articles. I would definitely recommend this for a good overview.