I’m glad you got it to work. DragonFlyBSD is a great OS - at least it was last time I used it, must have been two years ago. A small team split from FreeBSD as they disagree with the big turn in FreeBSD 5 (which was a catastrophe) and decided to continue developping in the FreeBSD 4 direction. If wish I could find some time to install a newer version. You can use the same ports as NetBSD - pkgsrc - , you just need to boostrap it (you’ll find out how) and use bmake instead of make everywhere. The same goes for darwin (Mac OSX).
You dont need to bootstrap in DFBSD anymore. Bootstrap is mandatory with NetBSD and afterwards its really simple. In DFBSD after pkgsrc-create you use bmake install. The pkgsrc is same but without bootstrap (I’ve tried that but it didn’t work), DFBSD developers have done a fair amount of work to make things easy.
cd /usr && make pkgsrc-create
That will fetch all pkgsrc collection (480MB as of now)
Later from time to time you do
cd /usr && pkgsrc-update
DFBSD is now using git and there are many chanels like pkgsrc-2010Q3 or master. You can get all major pkgsrc collection to work for you under git. I am now building kde3 (kde4 is work under progress). The only trouble that I have with other BSD is video driver. My NetBSD gnome looks ugly but it is works perfect compared to that of Ubuntu or Linux. DFBSD and OpenBSD are really cool. I was looking for OpenBSD-Gentoo but the developers no longer support it. I’m thinking of doing something similar with new OpenBSD release.
Yep. That’s indeed the big problem and the reason for many people to switch to Linux, where they hope to find better support for nvidia. nvidia is just hated and blacklisted in openBSD world. But for the first time ever … I magically installed a nvidia 64bit video driver from the port collections under FreeBSD and it just works the same way it does under Linux. I should say it was a great news. openBSD and video drivers is a totally different story. I haven’t installed 4.8 yet … Pffff… was just too busy here.
I got nvidia in freebsd as well. I am in full support of OpenBSD policy with regards to licensing. I have always preferred BSD license.