DragonFly 4.2.0 released

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 05:30:53 PDT 2015


Any chance of a GUI livecd with minimal set that fits onto
a 700MB medium?

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Justin Sherrill
<justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> "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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