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IRC Forum with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the up-close-and-personal dept.

weebl writes "Thursday October 9th at 6:00PM PDT (9PM EDT/1AM GMT) SlashNET's #forum channel will be hosting a Q&A session with Matthew Dillon of the DragonFly BSD Project. This is your opportunity to ask about DragonFly BSD, BSD in general, or any other questions you might have for him. DragonFly BSD was first announced this past July." If you can't make it to the forum, SlashNET will have a bot running earlier in the day for question submissions, and logs available afterward.

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  1. Shame.... by NightSpots · · Score: 5, Interesting

    His contributions to FreeBSD will be missed.

    I'm sure I represent a large portion of the community who greatly appreciated his work on the VM subsystem (he even pointed the Linux folks in the right direction on more than one occassion), and am disappointed to see him leaving the project.

    I understand that not everyone gets along, that goals differ between members; it's just a shame to see it happen.

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  2. Re:focus by thallgren · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >There's a LOT of work going into fine grained locking to allow faster SMP

    Unless I'm totally wrong, this is exacly the opposite from what DragonFlyBSD is about. Matt has never liked the way FreeBSD and Linux are designed, a kernel sprinkeled with locks.

    Instead, he's trying to do a kernel where kernel-side subsystems communicate via message-passing, not too far from how exec.library worked in AmigaOS.

    So Matt and his cowboys/cowgirls are actually removing locks. :-)

    Regards, Tommy