DragonFly BSD 2.2 Released

An anonymous reader writes "DragonFly BSD 2.2 is now available. The second release to feature the HAMMER (versioning, among other things) filesystem — now considered production-ready — it includes 'major stability improvements across the board, new drivers, much better pkgsrc support and integration.' Apart from the CD ISO, this release has a DVD ISO with 'a fully operational X environment,' as well as a bootable USB disk-key image."

Good to see

[MichaelSmith]

...that somebody in BSD land is doing something genuinely different, and making it work.

Where have you been?

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone in BSD land already DID do something different and something that works. In fact, it is so different, and works so well that it is now the most popular version of Unix ever made, eclipsing every other version of BSD and Linux by many orders of magnitude. It is used by anyone who has work to do and is sick of the hassles of the "open sores" development model and the unreliability of Windows.

It's called "OS X", and it is made by Apple.

Re:Where have you been?

[MichaelSmith]

OS X is a kludge.

Re:Where have you been?

[Tubal-Cain]

OSX benefits from a foundation of Open Source software and a userland developed with a centralized control that holds the developer's paychecks.
The scratch-an-itch method of development works great for the kernel, but can get a little messy in the GUI.
That is one reason I think MS could survive doing the same thing Apple did with OSX.