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Matt Dillon On FreeBSD 5.0 VM System And More

Posted by timothy on from the more-bsd-please dept.

JigSaw writes: "OSNews features a very interesting interview regarding FreeBSD 5 with the guy responsible for the very good (technically) FreeBSD VM among other things. Matt Dillon talks about everything: FreeBSD 5, Linux, .NET and much more. Additionally, OSNews also includes two mini interviews with the NetBSD and OpenBSD head developers."

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  1. More Information From Theo by ekrout · · Score: 2, Redundant

    There are also a few comments from Theo de Raadt, the OpenBSD Founder himself. Be sure to check them out at the very bottom of the page!

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  2. Hold on, are you talking about THE Matt Dillon ? by Flabdabb+Hubbard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Of the breakfast club ? and St Elmo's Fire ? I never knew he was a coder/hacker. How can this have been kept quiet for so long ? Did Matt's agent keep it secret so Matt didn't appear to be homosexual (like a large number of Linux users) ?

  3. Versatile Matt Dillon by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Coder, longtime FreeBSD hacker, actor

  4. Poor Guy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...It's like in Office Space:
    "THE Matt Dillon? I celebrate the man's whole catalogue! What's your favorite of his movies?"
    Managers == Trolls

  5. movies and freebsd hacking too by gnurd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wow. all this hacking and he still has time for movies. loved 'something about mary', keep up the good work.

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  6. something about mary by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 0, Redundant

    matt was great in "soething about mary", but how much can he really know about linux?

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  7. 9. What is your opinion on .NET? by KidSock · · Score: 1, Redundant

    9. What is your opinion on .NET and do you think that it may be possible that .NET change the OS "map" as we know it?

    Matt Dillon: I believe .NET is Vapor. It's a marketing term dreamed up by Microsoft that will magically morph into whatever Microsoft eventually winds up delivering. MS announces grandiose ideas with cute catch phrases all the time, and as with any good vapor there is always some basis in truth (if only a little pinprick). The reality is a little different though... remember, these are the people that hyped windows-ME up the wazoo and all we got out of it was a speech-synthesized windows installation wizard! These are the people that called NT the unix-killer and told people it was as reliable as UNIX. .NOT is probably a more descriptive term for .NET. My guess is that it will turn into Microsoft-proprietary rent-a-service glue, and that it will introduce an order of magnitude more security issues then IIS.

    Yes, I just blatantly copied this over. Sorry. But it's a choice comment. I bet he's right too.