Re:DragonflyBSD v5.0 released
by baldfat on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:46AM
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Dragonfly was certainly my favorite BSD, but not enough for me to leave Linux and OpenSUSE.
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I'd use Plan 9, if I could. And yes, Linux is the closest thing right now.
In regards to Plan9 I prefer Inferno, given it is its last iteration, specially with Limbo instead of Alef that was dropped on Plan 9.
The language is a barrier there. Maybe if we could use go!
C is still there on Inferno, if that is what you mean.
"I'd use Plan 9, if I could. And yes, Linux is the closest thing right now."
What about GNU Hurd?
Re:DragonflyBSD v5.0 released
by algorithm314 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:55AM
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supports only x86 so deal breaker
Just to clarify, you mean there's no (official) build for ARM/MIPS/etc, right?
DragonflyBSD itself is officially supported on x86_64.
The only good reason I can think of to support something other than x86_64 is running on something like a raspberry pi or some sort of 'embedded' device. That's not really suited to the goals of Dragonfly anyways, NetBSD or Linux are a much better fit there.
Re:DragonflyBSD v5.0 released
by joshbaptiste on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:35PM
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Well yes because Dfly has really small community compared to even FreeBSD .. supporting/testing multiple architectures is a monumental task for distro maintainers.