electrostaticcarrot writes "DragonFly &mdash; that fourth major BSD &mdash; has had its 2.4 release. The 'most invasive change' is the addition and usage of a DevFS for /dev; building on this, drives are now also recognized by serial number (along with /etc/devtab for aliases) as listed in /dev/serno. This is also the first release with a x86-64 ISO, stable but with limited pkgsrc support. Other larger changes include a ported and feature-extended (with full hotplug and port multiplier support) AHCI driver (and SILI driver based on it) originally taken from OpenBSD, major NFS changes, and HAMMER updates. A pkgsrc GIT mirror has also been set up and put in use to make future pkgsrc updates quicker and smoother. Here are two of the mirrors."<p><a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/09/09/18/1258228/DragonFly-24-Rele ased?from=rss"><img src="http://bsd.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0 &sid=09/09/18/1258228"></a></p><p><a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/09/09/18/1258228/DragonFly-24-Rele ased?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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