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Learn DragonFlyBSD - Pre-Requisites Skills & Environment Setup
Before touching the DragonFlyBSD installer, you need to equip yourself with basic Unix/BSD administration skills, understand the concepts of filesystems, networking, and snapshots, and prepare a virtual environment or hardware with the minimum specifications to run HAMMER2.
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - History, Background & Why You Need It
This episode traces the birth of DragonFlyBSD: Matthew Dillon's fork of FreeBSD 4.8 in 2003 as a reaction to FreeBSD's development direction. You'll understand the motivation behind LWKT, HAMMER2, and the custom network stack, as well as the release map from 1.x to the current 6.4.2.
August 3, 2026
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - Core Concepts & Main Architecture
This episode breaks down DragonFlyBSD's architecture as a whole: the base system (kernel + userland) and DPorts as the application layer, the source tree structure cloned via git, and the roles of the LWKT kernel, HAMMER2, newbee, NVMM, and pkg as one unified system.
August 3, 2026
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - Installation & Partitioning (installer)
This episode walks you through the DragonFlyBSD text installer: selecting sets (kern, base, comp, man), network and swap configuration, then disk partitioning with fdisk, disklabel, and the HAMMER2 filesystem as the default with UFS as an option.
August 3, 2026
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - Package Management: pkg & DPorts
This episode covers how to manage software on DragonFlyBSD: binary packages with pkg (install, upgrade, search, info, repo), then DPorts with make install clean and dsynth for building packages yourself, including the tradeoffs between the binary and source paths.
August 3, 2026
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - Users, Groups & doas
This episode teaches identity management on DragonFlyBSD: creating and removing users with useradd, adduser, and userdel, managing groups with groupadd, reading /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and setting up privileges with su, doas, and sudo along with the wheel group.
August 3, 2026
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - System Services & rc System
This episode dissects DragonFlyBSD's service system: the roles of /etc/rc.conf, /etc/defaults/rc.conf, the scripts in /etc/rc.d/, the service command, and rcorder for determining boot order, including how to enable and disable services via /etc/rc.conf.local.
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - Filesystems, Mounts & Disks
This episode covers the foundations of DragonFlyBSD storage: comparing HAMMER2, UFS, tmpfs, and mfs; mount and umount operations; disk management with disklabel and newfs_hammer2; laying out /etc/fstab; checking with fsck; and swap configuration.
August 3, 2026
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - HAMMER2 Fundamentals
This episode opens the door to HAMMER2 thoroughly: the PFS (Pseudo File System) concept as a dataset, how to mount with mount_hammer2, adding volumes via hammer2 volume-add for multi-volume disk spanning, plus the zstd and lz4 compression properties, checksums, and important mount options.
August 3, 2026
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Learn DragonFlyBSD - HAMMER2 Snapshot, Dedup & Encryption
This episode takes HAMMER2 to an advanced level: creating snapshots with hammer2 snapshot, managing the PFS list with pfs-list, rollback and clones, block deduplication, per-PFS encryption with hammer2 set-encrypted, and the experimental 6.4 remote mounting feature.
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