Comments on: DragonFly 5.2 released

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:59:38 +0000

Thank you! I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

But if it’s “new and strange” to you, I’ll probably brick my CPU :)

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:39:56 +0000

Everything I know about microcode updates is here:

https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?s=microcode

The concept is still new and strange to me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 13:29:28 +0000

Yes, it’s impressive what a small group of motivated people with a *clear focus* can do!

Just one (maybe dumb) question: those of us who upgraded to 5.2 , in order to address the Meltdown/Spectre issue should also update the CPU microcode, right?

What is the standard way to do this? I thought about:
1) Installing sysutils/devcpu-data
2) Trying if it works with: service microcode_update onestart
3) If anything is ok, add /etc/rc.conf:
microcode_update_enable=”YES”

Is it right? Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 04:22:19 +0000

From the release announcement:

>>”We can now recommend H2 as the default root filesystem in non-clustered mode.”

That’s BIG news.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 03:06:49 +0000

Congrats guys! Always impressive to see a small team push regular releases. OpenBSD did beat you by a week with their Meltdown-safe release, but they “cheated” by releasing ahead of their announced date ;)

It took me a few minutes to install on a VPS. I’m now going to play with HAMMER2 a bit…