The developers of the DragonFly BSD operating system were proud to announce today, March 27, 2017, the release and immediate availability for download of DragonFly BSD 4.8.DragonFly BSD 4.8 is a major update coming about 6 months after the last maintenance update to the previous 4.6 stable series of the BSD-based operating system. It adds numerous exciting new features and improvements, starting with updated kernel and graphics stacks adding better support for Intel Broadwell and Skylake processors.
"This release further localizes cache lines and reduces/removes cache ping-ponging on globals. For bulk builds on many-cores or multi-socket systems, we have around a 5% improvement, and certain subsystems such as namecache lookups and exec()s see massive focused improvements," reads today's announcement.
Another interesting feature added to DragonFly BSD 4.8 release is EFI support as a mainstream boot environment ... (read more)
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