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baldfat
Dragonfly was certainly my favorite BSD, but not enough for me to leave Linux and OpenSUSE.
algorithm314
supports only x86 so deal breaker
k_sze
Just to clarify, you mean there's no (official) build for ARM/MIPS/etc, right?

DragonflyBSD itself is officially supported on x86_64.

jrs95
The only good reason I can think of to support something other than x86_64 is running on something like a raspberry pi or some sort of 'embedded' device. That's not really suited to the goals of Dragonfly anyways, NetBSD or Linux are a much better fit there.
joshbaptiste
Well yes because Dfly has really small community compared to even FreeBSD .. supporting/testing multiple architectures is a monumental task for distro maintainers.
Koshkin
I'd use Plan 9, if I could. And yes, Linux is the closest thing right now.
pjmlp
In regards to Plan9 I prefer Inferno, given it is its last iteration, specially with Limbo instead of Alef that was dropped on Plan 9.
nejenendn
The language is a barrier there. Maybe if we could use go!
pjmlp
C is still there on Inferno, if that is what you mean.
pmoriarty
"I'd use Plan 9, if I could. And yes, Linux is the closest thing right now."

What about GNU Hurd?

Koshkin
Looks interesting! Anybody using it? Couldn't find the answer on the web.
joshbaptiste
Yes I run DragonFly 4.6 in my VMWare cluster and use it mainly as a file server.
ceratopisan
It's not released; it's just tagged. Seriously, I haven't even finished building the release image yet.
sctb
Thanks! We've buried this thread so we can have one for the actual release materials.
joshbaptiste
I really wish Dfly had more shine (especially in the cloud space), because I would like to see how the hybrid mono/micro kernel architecture compares to todays heavy monolithic architectures in terms of raw transaction speed and stability at scale.