Coupla questions on DragonFly as a desktop OS

[John Long]

Sorry, some additional info and questions:

Box is a Dell Poweredge T30 with 2x1T drives (for now)

Should I pick HAMMER or HAMMER2 (installer seems to suggest HAMMER) and
should I use Dell's onboard RAID 0 or AHCI?

I'm doing a trial install now with HAMMER2, AHCI... I used NetBSD (and
Free and still running OpenBSD on various boxes) for a while years ago
so the basics are somewhat familiar. I'm sure HAMMER/2 is totally new
and great :)

Thanks again,

/jl


On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 08:04 +0000, John Long wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some miscellaneous questions on the way to finding a new
> desktop
> OS. Thanks to anybody who would help with this:
> 
> Acrobat reader: I have a lot of manuals in .pdf format and I haven't
> found anything I can tolerate other than acroread. I'm not saying
> there
> isn't anything good, I just haven't seen it. I don't need forms
> support
> or change tracking or any fancy stuff. I want 2-up display and I need
> internal links to work. I also have a bunch of .djvu but the djview
> reader is mostly ok.
> 
> Computer languages: Are Fortran and Ada available? I looked in the
> dports directory at UK Mirror Service and I didn't find any of the
> common names (gfortran, gcc-ada, gnat (the language, not the bug
> tracker)).
> 
> Virtualization: Is there a way to run Linux in a VM?
> 
> HAMMER2: Is it possible to set up a root mirror in the installer and
> if
> not can I add a disk to mirror the root after installing? I don't
> know
> anything about HAMMER/HAMMER2 but I use ZFS on Solaris and I am
> hoping
> to get some of the same management features with HAMMER2, mostly the
> stuff about filesystems taking only the space they need, and having
> good software mirroring that makes it easy to pull out a bad drive,
> swap in a new one, and everything works with no data loss.
> 
> Are web browsers like Opera and Chrome available? Don't get me wrong,
> I
> hate google bitterly, but Chrome's translation feature is handy when
> it
> works. I like Opera's UI but I can live with Firefox.
> 
> Is the JFS filesystem supported? I have a bunch of external drives
> using JFS.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /jl
> 
> 
> 
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