DragonFly BSD Announced

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 16, 2003 @09:33AM from the skimming-and-darting dept.

JoshRendlesham writes "Matt Dillon announced today on the freebsd-hackers mailing list the creation of the DragonFly BSD project. It seeks to build on the work of FreeBSD 4.x, including a rewrite of the packaging and distribution system, among other goals."

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In other news by imipak · 2003-07-16 09:34 · Score: 4, Funny

Brad Pitt announced a new fork from the -AC kernel tree.
1. Re:In other news by Tumbleweed · 2003-07-16 09:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  > Brad Pitt announced a new fork from the -AC kernel tree
  
  Rule 1: You do not talk about the -AC kernel tree.
  RUle 2: You DO NOT talk about the -AC kernel tree.
  Rule 3: If it's your first night in the -AC kernel tree, you HAVE to post.
2. Re:In other news by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 00:03 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  In Soviet Russia BSD FORKS YOU!
3. Re:In other news by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 05:49 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Dear Father O'Day:
  Thanks for your letter. Being Catholic myself, I know exactly what you're talking about! It has always been our plan here at Apple Computer Inc to revolutionize personal computing with our high-quality and highly gay products.
  I'm happy to answer your letter by letting you know that YES we will be releasing an entire hLife ("homo-life") software line. You'll be able to recognize it in stores by the small stylized logo depicting a large cock entering a tight anus with an Apple logo on it. ("Suddenly it all comes together" indeed!).
  Anyway, I hope you and other members of our community will join us on our mission, and purchase the exciting new hLife boxed set. Only the boxed set comes with translucent cock rings!
  Sincerely,
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  Vice-president
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  Apple Computer, Inc.
Wonderful by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-16 09:36 · Score: 5, Funny

This is great news. God knows we need another BSD, I don't think anyone is happy that currently we only have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, TrustedBSD, XMach, Darwin, and Microsoft Windows.
1. Re:Wonderful by Eric_Cartman_South_P · 2003-07-16 11:01 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, TrustedBSD, XMach, Darwin, and Microsoft Windows.
  And listed in order of stability, too! Informative post. :)
2. Re:Wonderful by yanestra · 2003-07-16 12:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  This is great news. God knows we need another BSD, I don't think anyone is happy that currently we only have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, TrustedBSD, XMach, Darwin, and Microsoft Windows.
  
  Unhappy with *BSD?
  
  Too fast?
  Too stable?
  Too scalable?
  
  Solution: Simply fork off a new Windows branch and make it a better server OS.
3. Re:Wonderful by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-16 23:51 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  After all, BSD has way too many distributions, lets see oh about 6.
  
  Linux has about 2 x 10^4 distros.
  
  Good point.....NOT
4. Re:Wonderful by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-17 00:47 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Heathen!!! You've misquoted the holy scriptures once again! Anonymous Coward you will burn in hell for all eternity!
  
  From the gospel according to BSDTroll:
  
  "Thus sayeth the Torvalds, "Verily I say unto you, the wages of BSD is death."" (Nested quotes)
administrators by geekmetal · 2003-07-16 09:38 · Score: 2, Funny

Finally, we believe that a fully integrated and feature-full upgrade mechanism should exist to allow end users and system operators of all walks of life to easily maintain their systems. Debian Linux has shown us the way, but it is possible to do better.
Oh no! Who will pay the administrators the big bucks now?

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Obligatory Dying Post by Rakefighter · 2003-07-16 09:40 · Score: 2, Funny

Dragonfly BSD is dying...

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What a great name idea! by jednet · 2003-07-16 09:59 · Score: 3, Funny

What were they thinking when they named their project after a bug?
Re:Dragonfly BSD, life expectancy? by Gogo+Dodo · 2003-07-16 10:09 · Score: 2, Funny

Dragonflies live longer than 24 hours. See the British Dragonfly Society FAQ.
No, no... by fm6 · 2003-07-16 10:19 · Score: 2, Funny

This isn't the actor, it's the lawman. Jeez, Slashdotters are so ignorant!
*BSD Basher Dead at 16 by slickwillie · 2003-07-16 11:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Anonymous Howard, who made a career of proclaiming the demise of the *BSD Operating Systems, was found dead at his keyboard this afternoon. He had just turned 16. An unnamed police spokeswoman said it was an apparent case of "autoerotic asphyxiation gone haywire". [You know the rest of the story.]
Re:PORTAGE! by Simon+Kongshoj · 2003-07-16 13:24 · Score: 5, Funny

That's it. I'm going to mail Daniel Robbins and ask him to make the next in his brilliant series of articles at IBM DeveloperWorks a "OS advocacy for overzealous Gentoo freaks" piece.

The first and most important bit: Always bring up Gentoo whenever ANYONE mentions ANY other operating system! This is of UTMOST importance! Just like annoying potential customers works for Internet advertisers, annoying potential users must work for OS advocates!

Longhorn would kick ass if they installed unwanted software using PORTAGE instead of Windows Update!!!!! PR0T4G3 R0XX0RZ J00R B0XX0RS!

I'm going to be burned at the stake for this, but don't worry, my karma ensures that I'll be back as a lotus blossom to annoy all you bloody geeks with pollen.

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Re:PORTAGE! by hhw · 2003-07-16 21:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Portage on BSD is about as necessary as another Linux distribution.

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