How to Install DragonFly BSD 4.6 Xfce Desktop and Review on VMware

DragonFly BSD 4.6 Xfce Installation and Review

This tutorial shows how to install DragonFly BSD 4.6 and Xfce Desktop environment step by step. We'll also install some applications such as Nano, Gedit and Chromium Web Browser on DragonFly BSD. This tutorial also helps for installing DragonFly BSD 4.6 on physical computer, laptop or bare-metal server.

DragonFly BSD 4.6 Installation Steps:

1. Download DragonFly BSD 4.6 ISO
2. Create VM on VMware Workstation/Player
3. Start Installation
4. Install Basic Applications
5. DragonFly BSD 4.6 Review

Installing DragonFly BSD 4.6 with Xfce Desktop and Review

What is DragonFly BSD?

DragonFly BSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system created as a fork of FreeBSD. DragonFly provides an opportunity for the BSD base to grow in an entirely different direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD series. DragonFly BSD includes many useful features that differentiate it from other operating systems in the same class. The most prominent one is HAMMER which is modern high performance filesystem with built-in mirroring and historic access functionality.
DragonFly BSD Website: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/

DragonFly 4.6 New Features

DragonFly 4.6 brings brings more updates to accelerated video for both i915 and radeon users, home-grown support for NVMe controllers, preliminary EFI support, improvements in SMP and networking performance under heavy load, and a full range of binary packages.
Download DragonFly 4.6 ISO: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/

What is VMware Workstation?

VMware Workstation is a hypervisor that runs on x86-64 computers; it enables users to set up one or more virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical machine, and use them simultaneously along with the actual machine.
VMware Workstation product website: https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation

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