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DragonFlyBSD Team Interviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-to-know dept.

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 ."

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  1. OnLamp -- Hit or Miss by bhima · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It is just me or are the articles on OnLamp very hit or miss. When the are good, like this one, they are very good & when they are bad I can't even finish them!

    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??

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    1. Re:OnLamp -- Hit or Miss by animus9 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Mac OS X relies on XNU (modified Mach 3.0 + BSD) for SMP. As far as I know, it uses a mutex model (like linux, freebsd, & netbsd).

      Mac OS X SMP
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  2. Re:The reason there are so many BSDs is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

  3. New BSD on the block by CustomFort · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It seems like this new DragonFLy BSD project could become very interesting. I have been wondering for a while what their exact purpose was for the split, and I think I like it. Their goal of implementing cleaner and more scalable structures sounds like a worthy one, even if it is a long tem goal.

    Who knows, someday the BSD world might break up lke this:
    OpenBSD is for Routers and firewalls
    NetBSD is for XBox/Toaster/microwave/everything else =P
    FreeBSD is for Servers
    and
    DragonBSD is for SSI Supercomputers or other highly scalable systems.

    1. Re:New BSD on the block by Homology · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Who knows, someday the BSD world might break up lke this: OpenBSD is for Routers and firewalls NetBSD is for XBox/Toaster/microwave/everything else =P FreeBSD is for Servers and DragonBSD is for SSI Supercomputers or other highly scalable systems.

      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".