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Interview With Matt Dillon of DragonFlyBSD

Posted by timothy on from the did-you-always-want-to-be-a-comedian? dept.

animus9 writes "There is an interesting interview with Matt Dillon regarding the current status and future of DragonFlyBSD. In it he compares the difference between serializing tokens and the mutex model (a nice contrast to the previously posted Scott Long SMPng interview). He also describes the work being done in the VFS, along with his plans for Journaling, SSI Clustering, packaging, and more."

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  1. More like a memorial service... by agraupe · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    More like a memorial service, am I right??!!

    All joking aside, I would like to see a *BSD get to the point where its "year of the desktop" might be as close as Linux's currently is. I tried Free and OpenBSD, and although they are both nice systems, they hold little appeal over Linux outside of the server market, and especially lag behind on the issue of desktop usage. That being said, I would pick OpenBSD for a public server over any Linux distro in a heartbeat... if it was important enough to justify learning the *BSD ins and outs.