DragonFly 4.2.0 released

[Justin Sherrill]

Like before, someone would need to build it - and to get it under
700M, make some decisions about what to remove.

The existing non-GUI image is under 700M.  Are you specifically
looking to boot a liveCD and run X without installing?

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?