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DragonFlyBSD Team Interviewed
lowks writes "A nice little interview from the ONLamp BSD advocacy page where we get to peer a little into the goings ons and updates as well as plans for DragonFlyBSD. Highlights include the rationale behind DragonFlyBSD and peeks into the current engine as well as goodies planned to be implemented in the future versions. DragonFlyBSD is another flavour of BSD which forked from the FreeBSD 4.x branch not too long ago. It's headed by Matt Dillon, who forged out on his own and started DragonFlyBSD due to technical differences with the FreeBSD team ."
Or I suppose it could be that I'm mildly interested in Dragonfly and I think Matt et all have a strong argument in LWKT.
Hmmm now I wonder what sort of SMP strategy is used in OS X??
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Please. There are what, 300 different Linux distros?
Guess what, different people have different goals and needs. Matt Doollon wanted to implement SMP in a different way than his (then) fellow FreeBSD developers had envisioned. NetBSD guys want to run on every platform out there. OpenBSD is about security.
Go back to your cave if you have nothing to contribute, but don't tell people what to do with their free time.
Mike Bouma
Then, why Mr. AC, haven't people like David O'Brien , Dag-Erling Smorgav or Poul-Henning Kamp been kicked out of FreeBSD yet? They're as prone to flamewars as Dillon was, probably even more.
Mike Bouma
This might come as a surprise for you, but all of the BSD are general purpose OS, even though they have different focus. There are quite a few OpenBSD servers out there, just as there are quite a few FreeBSD firewalls and routers, and the same goes for NetBSD. NetBSD has even set the TCP speed record over "the pond".
Why is it that, for any BSD article, half of the responses are standard, boring, retarded "BSD is dying" posts. I think it is just a bunch of linux evangelists with massive insecurities, just wanting to ensure that linux stays at the top of the heap when it comes to open-source operating systems. Who says that all competition has to come from Microsoft? It's not like they're amazing to begin with. (For the record: I am a happy Linux user. I tried OpenBSD, and found that I didn't like it. This does not stop me from realizing that some people like it more, and that it may be better for some purposes. At the moment, I am considering giving FreeBSD a try. Generally I'm open-minded towards all operating systems. Yes. Even Windows, to a lesser degree)
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Come on, who on slashdot says:
"I think I'll order a copy and at least give it a try"
My advice is to look at the damage done to the JBoss team after being caught astroturfing. If you want to promote your stuff, great but be up front about it. OK?
How many 'user-friendly' Linuxes do we have? How many of those are just Redhat? How many are just Debian? You speak of splitting the community being bad, yet the Linuxes seem to devide more rapidly than cancer, and it looks to be working for them.
How many webservers are there? How many mail servers? DNS servers? I am not talking about how many are popular, I am talking how many are out there. There are a great many, and increasing in number all the time. How greatly hurt has sendmail been by the creation of qmail and postfix?
Honestly, I would prefer that people like the ekkoBSD, MirBSD and MicroBSD Projects just contribute to OpenBSD instead of going off on their own, but it isn't hurting OpenBSD. I don't see NetBSD being dead because OpenBSD was started. I hardly see DragonFlyBSD killing FreeBSD.
I don't really like this kind of contstant trolling on about the BSDs on Slashdot, considering things like OpenSSH, CARP and now OpenBGPD and OpenNTP come out of just one of these projects, you'd think that Linux fans would like them more.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Matt is still on some of the mailing lists. I've seen him recently (past several days) involved in some very deep technical discussions.
I personally think that even if Matt had not lost his FreeBSD commit bit, he might have started DragonFly anyways. DF is an excellent vehicle for trying out some new architectural approaches to problems that are just fundamentally different from FreeBSD 5 was/is doing.