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Matthew Dillon
DragonFly 1.12 Released!
Hello everyone! We are happy to say that the 1.12 release is now available! http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ This release is primarily a maintainance update. A lot of work has been done all over the kernel and userland. There are no new big-ticket items though we have pushed the MP lock further into the kernel. The 2.0 release is scheduled for mid-year. Of the current big-ticket item work, the new HAMMER filesystem is almost to the alpha stage of development a...
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Feb 26, 4:10 pm 2008
Sascha Wildner
Re: DragonFly 1.12 Released!
Many thanks to everyone who contributed! :) Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx
Feb 26, 4:45 pm 2008
Matthew Dillon
Re: Introduction
I'm afraid I don't know. I took that picture in my garden, in Berkeley, California. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
Feb 26, 4:12 pm 2008
Colin Adams
Re: Introduction
Well, I will find out. It is almost certainly a Darter (Sympetrum) - although you Americans call them Meadowhawks.
Feb 26, 4:37 pm 2008
B. Estrade
Re: Introduction
I grew up calling them mosquito-hawks. I know the term "dragonfly" obviously, but I've never head of the term meadowhawk. B
Feb 26, 4:52 pm 2008
Colin Adams
Re: Introduction
It's hard to be certain, but it looks like Sympetrum Illotum (Cardinal Meadowhawk). See http://southwestdragonflies.net/swanisoptera.html#Meadowhawks for pictures.
Feb 26, 4:54 pm 2008
Colin Adams
Introduction
Hello DragonFlyBSD users, I have just seen the word DragonFlyBSD for the first time today (on the KVM wiki). I am a software engineer and also a dragonfly recorder (yes, I record the numbers and species of dragonflies and damselflies in Hurst Grange Park, Penwortham, Lancashire, England). So I could not resist taking a look. This last weekend, I installed FreeBSD 6.3 in a KVM virtual machine running under Linux (x86_64). I had never used any flavour of BSD at all before, nor had I any familia...
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Feb 26, 6:00 am 2008
Michael Neumann
Re: Introduction
Welcome! While reading your post I got an idea for future DragonFlyBSD releases. Why not name them according to dragonfly species? I think there should be enough till the next millenium ;-) Regards, Michael
Feb 26, 6:19 am 2008
Sascha Wildner
Re: Introduction
Hmm, am I the only one who is glad that we _don't_ have fancy codenames for releases? Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx
Feb 26, 6:24 am 2008
Michael Neumann
Re: Introduction
Hm, I don't like codenames as well, despite liking the idea :) I can easily remember a version number, while I forget names very quickly, because they usually have no meaning (e.g. Intel codenames :). But if used rarely, codenames might be a nice and funny thing. For example if the goal is some years away as for example "Python 3000" (hehe, is that now a codename or a version number?). Maybe there is a dragonfly that builds clusters? :) Regards, Michael
Feb 26, 6:57 am 2008
Sdävtaker
Re: Introduction
If you use "dragonflies names" one starting with each alphabeth letter, like big storms, then you can use names and still have a pretty nice order, since after the "i dont know the name starting with A" you got the "i dont know the name starting with B" but sure you will have the "i got no idea wich version is this one, starting with J branch starting with L, RC4". So... 1.12... right? ;-) Sdav -- Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure.
Feb 26, 1:46 pm 2008
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