Matt Dillon announced the availability of DragonFly BSD's 1.0 Release Candidate #1. Get it here (please use a mirror or post mirrors as comments). Changes and features include: variant symbolic links, UDF support, lightweight kernel threads, message passing, GCC 3.4 in the tree, binutils 2.14, Kernighan's awk 2004-02-07, BIND 9.2.4 rc4, CVS 1.12.8, libpcap 0.8.3, tcpdump 3.8.3, less 381, MMX/XMM kernel optimizations are now on by default, greatly improving bcopy/bzero/copyin/copyout performance for large (>4K) buffers, XIO, acpica5, new AC'97 codec support, network stack revamping, long standing bug fixes for wide variety of support and stability issues, and way, way, way more. A new installer is also in the works that uses DragonFly's new CAPS IPC mechanism. The installer beta is available here (Not updated to RC1 just yet, but it gives a nice idea of the progess made). So what are you waiting for?! Go get it, and break the hell out of it! (don't forget to send nice bug reports ;)

PS: When will there be a DragonFly category? I posted it now under FreeBSD press releases, but of course that isn't correct :)