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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. poo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    poo

  2. Drugstore Cowboy by Uber+Banker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/t

  3. The problem iwth BSD... by Skorpion · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is not the kernel, which is nice, but the complete lack of *BSD developers' interest in the outside world. The systems lack a good UI, the distributions lack a real support for more than a very limited core system.

    A year ago I wrote a short article on this subject (as a response to some BSD fanatic rant posted to /.). The antirant can be read here.

    The BSDs will be a good and interesting Operating Systems, when someone will strip them of the whole Unix legacy and make a GNU/BSD distribution. Especially when Debian/BSD will produce something useful.


    The interview is another sign of this problem - Matt Dillon concentrates on kernel issues while forgetting the Real World(TM). I still remember and respect Matt's work on AmigaOS, but his software was much more user-oriented then than it is now.

  4. Re:*BSD is dying by macphile84 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sssshhhh.... Don't tell Apple! If they find out that BSD is dying, they might have to just throw away their entire FreeBSD-Based Operating System!

  5. 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.