Initial impressions of DFly

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Wed Jun 30 14:20:11 PDT 2004


Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
After another, um, heated discussion, on -current@, I finally decided to use 
the other half of my harddrive here at work and install DFly.  I did the 
route of installing FBSD 4.10 and then a source upgrade and it worked 
wonderfully.  So far, all I can say is "WOW." :) I have been running -CURRENT 
on this machine for about a year, and have been somewhat disappointed in the 
stability and performance.  Not that I expected it to work as well as -STABLE 
does at home, mind you, but it was not as good as I was hoping.  There has 
been a noticeable improvement, but it is still rather underperforming.  Now 
that I have DFly running here (just the last couple of days) I have seen a 
tremendous improvement in performance.  On -CURRENT, even doing one 
	[ ... snipping ... ]

	You should be able to get around the cups-base problem because
	we allow the system name to be overriden because most of the
	scripts query using 'uname' and not 'sysctl', so something like
	this should get you through (on csh):
	# setenv uname_S DragonFlyBSD
	(or FreeBSD, whatever floats the boat)
	That should do the trick boss! :-p

	Thanks for the excellent comments you provided on DragonFly.
	As a member of the DragonFly project, I highly appreciate it on
	behalf of everyone.
		-Hiten
		hmp at xxxxxxxxxxxxx




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