The DragonFly 2.6 release is here!
-Three release options are now available for 32-bit: Our bare-bones CD ISO, a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (minimum 1G USB stick needed), and a gui bootable USB disk-key image with a full X environment. The gui USB image replaces the DVD ISO image we has in the previous release to work around issues with DVDs simply being too slow to boot an X environment from.
+Three release options are now available for 32-bit: Our bare-bones CD ISO, a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (minimum 1G USB stick needed), and a GUI bootable USB disk-key image with a full X environment. The GUI USB image replaces the DVD ISO image we had in the previous release, to work around issues with DVDs simply being too slow to boot an X environment from.
-Two release options are available for 64-bit: Our base-bones CD ISO and our bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image. The 64-bit release is now fully supported.
+Two release options are available for 64-bit: Our bare-bones CD ISO and our bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image. The 64-bit release is now fully supported.
## Availability
### pkgsrc packages
-We offer over 8000 pre-built [pkgsrc](http://www.pkgsrc.org) packages for this release. The [pkg_radd(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_radd§ion=ANY) utility may be used to download pre-built binary packages. By default this script will query the main package site for a random redirect to one of our mirrors. The path can be overridden by setting BINPKG_SITES in `/etc/settings.conf`.
+We offer over 8000 pre-built [pkgsrc](http://www.pkgsrc.org) packages for this release. The [pkg_radd(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_radd§ion=ANY) utility may be used to download pre-built binary packages. The path can be overridden by setting BINPKG_SITES in `/etc/settings.conf`.
To get a list of all packages, let [pkg_search(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_search§ion=ANY) download the summary file for that release:
# pkg_search -d
-We supply a Makefile in /usr to track the pkgsrc tree. We also supply a GIT mirror of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS repo as
-well as the pkgsrc/wip (work in progress) repo at git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrc.git and we recommend that
-users use it instead of pulling from NetBSD with CVS. Our GIT mirror is updated four times a day.
+We supply a Makefile in /usr to track the pkgsrc tree. We also supply a Git mirror of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS repo as
+well as the pkgsrc/wip (work in progress) repo at git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrc.git. We recommend that
+users use it, instead of pulling from NetBSD with CVS. Our Git mirror is updated four times a day.
## DragonFly 2.6.x Special Installation and Upgrade Notes
-**VirtualBox and VMWare users** - Unless your virtual hard disk is 50G or larger we recommend
+**VirtualBox and VMWare users** - Unless your virtual hard disk is 50G or larger, we recommend
doing a UFS install and not the default HAMMER install. We also recommend installing from the CD ISO
and not the DVD ISO.
-**Binary packages issue** - Due to bugs in 2009Q4 we had to use pkgsrc-current for the x86_64 img/iso
-and both gui images. The i386 img/iso uses 2009Q4. The binary packages on avalon are thus a bit
-out of date for the x86_64 and gui images.
+**Binary packages issue** - Due to bugs in pkgsrc-2009Q4 we had to use pkgsrc-current for the x86_64 img/iso
+and both GUI images. The i386 img/iso uses pkgsrc-2009Q4. The binary packages on avalon are thus a bit
+out of date for the x86_64 and GUI images.
**disklabel64 issue** - The installer may fail to install a 64-bit disklabel due to a snooping
bug in the kernel if a 32-bit disklabel was previously present on the drive. If you get this
-failure you can re-run fdisk -IB <drive> from a shell and then retry.
+failure, you can re-run fdisk -IB <drive> from a shell and then retry.
## DragonFly 2.6.1 Release Notes
* Added support for minidumps
* Added swapcache support for SSDs
* Ported POSIX Message Queues from NetBSD (Google Summer of Code Project).
-* Updated Linuxulator (now runs java, flash,...) for pc32
+* Updated Linuxulator (now runs java, flash,...) for i386
* fixed vinum root mounts
* Added watchdog framework (compatible with watchdogd(8))
* Added gpio framework
* null mounts now accept -o update
* awk(1): increased input field separator width to handle extended regexps.
* cpdup(1): added -VV option to verify file's contents and ignore mtime entirely.
-* mount_nfs(8):rdirplus is now the default
+* mount_nfs(8): rdirplus is now the default
* periodic(8) security now also reports pkgsrc vulnerabilities
* watchdogd: import from OpenBSD
* hotplugd(8): import from OpenBSD
**swapcache** - This is a mechanism which allows an attached solid state drive to be used to cache
data and/or meta-data for other filesystems. The meta-data caching feature is particularly useful for
machines which manage millions of files. About 2 million inodes and their related blockmaps can be
-cached per 1GB of SSD. DragonFly supports up to 32GB of swap per swap device (up to four) on i386
-and up to 512GB of swap per swap device on 64-bit, so a very large number of inodes can be cached.
+cached per gigabyte of SSD. DragonFly supports up to 32GB of swap, per swap device (up to four) on i386,
+and up to 512GB of swap, per swap device, on 64-bit, so a very large number of inodes can be cached.
Please see the [swapcache(8)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=swapcache§ion=ANY)
manual page for more information.