ftigeot

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   by ftigeot 8y ago

   DragonFly web documentation is wiki-based and tends to not always be up-to-date (contrary to man pages). All recent Intel GPUs are supported, including Kabylake and Coffeelake.
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   by ftigeot 9y ago

   DragonFly uses it for base and packages.
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   by ftigeot 10y ago

   As far as I know, the only BSD operating system to drop 32-bit support was DragonFly, back in 2014: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release40/
4. 4.▲
   by ftigeot 10y ago

   You should ask this question to Intel, nobody in the DragonFly team has access to such hardware. We have to do with boring alternatives we can actually find on Newegg like dual Xeon-E5 and quad-Opteron boxes :-)
5. 5.▲
   by ftigeot 11y ago

   Relevant Operating System community news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797932 SCTP support has just been removed from DragonFly. The code had been present for 15 years (inherited from FreeBSD) and in these 15
6. 6.▲
   by ftigeot 12y ago

   I ran the Postgres benchmarks again in March of this year and DragonFly was the fastest of all the operating system I tested. Look at page 20 of these PGCon slides: https://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/events/7
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   by ftigeot 12y ago

   The DRM code itself as well as most of the drm drivers is under a MIT/X11 license. It was only integrated in Linux in 2008 (not 100% sure of the date) and was maintained in a separate tree before that. It also had to be compatible with
8. 8.▲
   by ftigeot 12y ago

   Dropping i386 can be considered a big feature.