DragonFlyBSD 4.2 Released: Brings Improved Graphics & New Compiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DragonFlyBSD 4.2 Released: Brings Improved Graphics & New Compiler

DragonFlyBSD 4.2 was released this morning as the next major release to this popular BSD operating system. For end-users there are a lot of notable changes with this update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-4.2-Released

[beast]

DragonFlyBSD is the first major BSD distribution using GCC5 by default with most other BSDs defaulting to LLMV/Clang.

FreeBSD plus derivates and Bitrig use LLVM/Clang. DragonFly, OpenBSD, NetBSD use GCC.

[bison]

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release42/

From the point of view of the graphics subsystem, the DragonFly kernel can thus be considered a BSD-licensed implementation of Linux.

I like this!

[beast]

It's the same approach like NetBSD goes. Copy the DRM-Subsystem and add a OS-wrapper to minimize the changes to the original code.

[adakite]

Just wondering if NetBSD can take advantage of GCC 5 offloading capabilities as I saw NVPTX headers in some BSD trees.

[Luke_Wolf]

It's the same approach like NetBSD goes. Copy the DRM-Subsystem and add a OS-wrapper to minimize the changes to the original code.

all 4 BSDs have been working in that particular direction

[beast]

FreeBSD wants to go this way in the future, currently their adapted the Linux Code in their style. I'm not sure for OpenBSD it looks like they have it own code quality standards to integrate third party code more or less the same as FreeBSD.