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Interview with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD

Posted by michael on from the laziness-impatience-and-hubris dept.

JigSaw writes "Well-known FreeBSD/DragonFly/Linux/Amiga system hacker Matthew Dillon discusses a number of interesting points regarding where the BSDs are going, the status and goals of his latest project DragonFly BSD, the status of his innovative Backplane distributed database, his exciting plans to develop DragonFly into a transparently cluster-capable system implementing native SSI (Single System Image) which is something that no other operating system can do today, and more."

4 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Different threading model by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No BSD secrets for you, Darl!

  2. Re:Different threading model by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 5, Funny
    No BSD secrets for you, Darl!
    It is important that I discover what they have created so that I may license it back to them.

    ~Darl

  3. Amazing. by xeeno · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's actually something on the front page about BSD. And it says nothing about SCO or linux.

  4. Re:The Ballad of Matthew Dillon by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    There once was a Master of Screws
    Who thought it most wonderful news
    That the AC's post
    was more funny than most
    But not all mods agreed with his views.

    KFG