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They must've corrected it by now:
1.6 is our fourth major DragonFly release. DragonFly's policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches.

On another note: that's one massive releaselist! A big list of new features and improvements.

What pains me is that I consider DragonflyBSD the OS that has the most exciting developments going on, but: it's not usable for desktop use by a longshot (not too sure it's ready for server-use either). There's no DE yet, although recently I read of an XFCE beta, and there's little 'big' software running on it from what I can tell, since porting to DfBSD is less straightforward than normal, especially in the absence of the major widget-platforms.

Of course, for such needs there are alternative platforms, but with DragonflyBSD I at least get the feeling it's going places.

no DE, no widget-platforms ? There are KDE, Gnome,...Qt, Gtk... in fact the same software as NetBSD (through pkgsrc).
Of course it may not be fully "desktop ready" compared to Linux for example. Dragonfly has a lot of rough edges, evidently. But it is quite usable (if you are not a beginner in the *nix world of course).

Oops..it seems I missed quite a few developments since the last I heard. I was under the impression these didn't compile/run correctly, since DFly had a different threading model and such. People must've done a lot of work since the previous review of DFly on OSNews:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13352&page=2

I think it used to say that "1.4.4 is the fourth bug-fix sub-release in the 1.4 release branch", which means they released 4 bugfix updates to the previous release (1.4).

Maybe this page is inaccurate in other parts as well:
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/community/release1_6.cgi

E.g. there are two consecutive sections called "Release Notes for DragonFly 1.6.0". I think the second one is about 1.6 and the previous one about 1.4, but I could be wrong.

Me too..... my friend. What I like most, is the ability to delve in kernel code. Now, we need more human specs for Bluetooth (BT). Does anyone in this thread has to suggest a good BT book? Can I have the spec of BT2.0 in paper form? Is it expensive?

In paper it will probably cost you quite a lot, however it seems like you can get it for free from here (haven't looked at it): http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/

A lot of this stuff also here https://www.bluetooth.org/

Thanks guys!!!

These holidays I will start studying. I migrate my FedoraCore5 from my athlonXP and I will install PC BSD. Time for kernel hacking!!!