Google tells me that this is a fork of FreeBSD from some years ago, and that there is some desktop support and some degree of support for laptops, especially Thinkpads from a few years ago.
Anyone else care to comment?
Anyone else care to comment?
Think of a zfs log-structured instead of offer only snapshots. This means a complete protection against any accidental delete/overwrite since any write on disk create a new "checkpoint" and with proper file manager integration this means you can "browse history" of your's files and trees like they came from a VCS software.
There is zero filemanager integration, so only manual CLI operation with a UI a bit less comfortable than zfs, encryption have few limitations, physical volume management does not offer "built-in raids implementation" of zfs (but you can create volume on top of any supported raid config), deduplication is a bit resource intensive, replication is not clustered even if you can "mirror" (incremental mirrors included) any volume locally or on a remote machine in a way similar to zfs one...
Essentially is a zfs with a raw and a bit less intuitive UI with logfs and few nice extras.
That's true everywhere, outside specialized hardware offload.
That's not to say it is stale or anything like that; the BSDs share quite a bit of code heavily thanks to the license. And DFBSD has some novel things that FreeBSD does not have: in particular the SMP model is still distinct; they have the novel HAMMER filesystem, which no other operating system has; and they lead FreeBSD on DRM graphics drivers porting from Linux and non-uniform NUMA support (i.e., Threadripper 2990WX). There are certainly other things I am forgetting or simply don't know about; I develop FreeBSD and don't use Dragonfly myself.