DragonFlyBSD 4.0 RC3 Is Out, Faster DRM Drivers Coming

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 14 November 2014 at 07:47 AM EST. 1 Comment
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The third release candidate is out for the upcoming DragonFlyBSD 4.0 operating system release.

DragonFlyBSD 4.0 has been in an RC state since last month and uploaded last night was now the third release candidate that brings more updates to the popular BSD derivative.

DragonFlyBSD 4.0 RC2 was released just earlier this week to add procctl() support. The RC3 release has just a few changes around the procctl() system call, a segmentation fault fix, and updating time zone data.

DragonFlyBSD 4.0 RC3 can be downloaded from the DragonFlyBSD mirrors.

While not found in RC3, DragonFlyBSD 4.0 will be bringing a DRM driver speed-up. A developer added KQueue support to the Direct Rendering Manager on DragonFlyBSD and it's made video performance much faster.
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