DragonFly 4.2.0 released

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Mon Jun 29 17:57:21 PDT 2015


"Someone" needs to put the time in to make it work - it's probably not
a lot, but more than I have.

You can simulate it pretty well with pkg after installation - really,
it's not too far from:

pkg install xorg fluxbox fvwm firefox xpdf zsh emacs vim irssi eterm
perl5 nano bash exctags zip sudo links-gui wge terminus-font rsync
asclock screen

I am totally oversimplifying it, of course, but there isn't really any
special magic in a GUI version that you can't immediately access with
a normal install - with a little knowledge on your side.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
<baurthefirst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Justin Sherrill
> <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
>> DragonFly 4.2 has been tagged and built:
>>
>> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release42/
>>
>> From the release page:
>>
>> "Version 4.2 of DragonFly brings significant updates to i915 and
>> Radeon support, a move to GCC 5 (and the first BSD to do so), a
>> replacement to Sendmail, and numerous other changes including OpenSSL
>> updates, a new boot screen, improved sound, and improved USB support."
>>
>> The release page has links to the tagging commits for this release,
>> which have an exhaustive list of all the commits that went in between
>> 4.0 and 4.2.  The normal ISO and IMG files are available for download
>> and install.
>>
>> This version drops Sendmail as part of the base system and switches to
>> DMA as a local-only agent.  Be ready for some extra configuration if
>> you normally send outgoing mail with any box you are moving to 4.2!
>>
>> If you have an existing 4.0.x system and are running a generic kernel,
>> the normal upgrade process will work.  Change your local /usr/src to
>> 4.2:
>>
>>> cd /usr/src
>>> git fetch origin
>>> git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2
>>> git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2
>>> git pull
>>
>> And then rebuild:
>>
>>> make buildworld
>>> make buildkernel
>>> make installkernel
>>> make installworld
>>> make upgrade
>>
>> Don't forget to upgrade your existing packages.  4.2 packages have
>> already been built and are immediately available.
>>
>>> pkg upgrade
>
> Will we see GUI-enabled ISO image this time?



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