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DragonFly At DragonFly 1.0-CURRENT

Posted by timothy on from the nomenclature dept.

CoolVibe writes "For months, the DragonflyBSD fork of FreeBSD was maintaining compatibility with the existing FreeBSD-STABLE branch by using the 'FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE' name internally. In a few commits, Matt Dillon changed all the names, and DragonFly is finally sailing under its own banner. Things that DragonFlyBSD already has that FreeBSD-STABLE doesn't are, among others, application checkpointing, variant symlinks (not unlike Domain OS), Light-weight kernel threads, a more efficient slab-allocator, a multithreaded network stack, and the rcNG system."

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  1. Re:What kind of chip are you running?!?! by merdark · · Score: 2, Funny

    Go touch the core of your P2 when it's working and it'll talk through you. Its a very intense experience. ;)