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DragonFly BSD Announced

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Why dork with the existing FreeBSD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...packages and ports system. They're part of the best things FreeBSD has above Linux right now!

  2. pkg could be a lot better by HiFire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find this project exciting. Having tried gentoo's portage it has become clear to me that ports could be a lot better. While ports does work, it has a bunch of tools which make its use easier which arent included by default and could be integrated into ports.