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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. Re:Wonderful by carpe_noctem · · Score: 0, Troll

    MS Windows is a BSD? Am I missing something? /me checks out c:\winnt\ports

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  2. Does this mean.... by 222 · · Score: 0, Troll

    *BSD is still dying? :)

    1. Re:Does this mean.... by archen · · Score: 0, Troll

      I guess... I mean the bugs are circling now =P

  3. Re:Wonderful by EelBait · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think in the case of Windows, BSD = Blue Screen of Death. Your parent poster was probably just confused.