What is DragonFly BSD?
DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series. These operating systems belong in the same class as Linux in that they are based on UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly is a fork in the path, so to speak, giving the BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely new direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series.
It is our belief that the correct choice of features and algorithms can yield the potential for excellent scalability, robustness, and debuggability in a number of broad system categories. Not just for SMP or NUMA, but for everything from a single-node UP system to a massively clustered system. It is our belief that a fairly simple but wide-ranging set of goals will lay the groundwork for future growth. The existing BSD cores, including FreeBSD-5, are still primarily based on models which could at best be called 'strained' as they are applied to modern systems. The true innovation has given way to basically just laying on hacks to add features, such as encrypted disks and security layering that in a better environment could be developed at far less cost and with far greater flexibility.
We also believe that it is important to provide API solutions which allow reasonable backwards and forwards version compatibility, at least between userland and the kernel, in a mix-and-match environment. If one considers the situation from the ultimate in clustering... secure anonymous system clustering over the internet, the necessity of having properly specified APIs becomes apparent.
Finally, we believe that a fully integrated and feature-full upgrade mechanism should exist to allow end users and system operators of all walks of life to easily maintain their systems. Debian Linux has shown us the way, but it is possible to do better.
DragonFly is going to be a multi-year project at the very least. Achieving our goal set will require a great deal of groundwork just to reposition existing mechanisms to fit the new models. The goals link will take you to a more detailed description of what we hope to accomplish.
Unfortunately DragonFly doesn't yet have its own package manager, so some applications may not build or will require some extra effort like patches to build.
But most if not all can be built using the DragonFly override of ports (DFPORTS) and PKGSRC
"I don't think there's a keystroke logger that is able to work out where you clicked in the password entry box."
I'm sure keylogger/virus writers are scrambling to add that particular feature after reading your very informative comment. thanks
Using Jabber is very approriate for a corporate/company setup and imho better than a private mail system.
We can send messages, chat, send files and even have alerts like news etc.
Gotta love jabber.
hitting it again on with their classical line
"The SCO Group is the sole owner of the AT&T Unix System V software licensing agreement"
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1157433/
Scrabble would very easy for a computer.
People need to have the words in their head so a computer needs the equivalent: a dictionary.
Coupled with simple algorithms, an anagram solver plus strategic tile placement then a bruteforce method for the moves it will be unbeatable.
Well if we can just memorize a dictionary and easily recall the words we probably have a chance in beating a computer.
While CHESS does require more processing power and intuition it employs the same bruteforce technique to choose moves.
As have been the dismay of AI researchers
chess and scrabble taught little about AI that could mimic human like intelligence, strategy was missing.
I think GO has replaced both the board games for
AI reasearch.
There's maybe something wrong with your compilation Mine is smooth and fast Actually its faster cos dragging windows around doesn't bump up the cpu load to 100%. And Im not using any third party drivers, just the old xfree driver(nv instead of nvidia)
Clearly there's no solution to DDoS I hope ISPs on Internet2 adopt outgoing filters on certain kinds of traffic. This would lessen DDoS impact. Even with the adoption of IPv6, the anti-spoof mechanism isn't enough for an obvious and clever DDoS...
similar but not the same... NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD performs differently in terms of scalability etc.. as Mr. Felix von Leitner once demonstrated http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ (isnt up anymore maybe he's busy with new benchmarks):D
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You do not need PaX for ASLR. Vanilla has it: /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
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What is DragonFly BSD? DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series. These operating systems belong in the same class as Linux in that they are based on UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly is a fork in the path, so to speak, giving the BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely new direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series. It is our belief that the correct choice of features and algorithms can yield the potential for excellent scalability, robustness, and debuggability in a number of broad system categories. Not just for SMP or NUMA, but for everything from a single-node UP system to a massively clustered system. It is our belief that a fairly simple but wide-ranging set of goals will lay the groundwork for future growth. The existing BSD cores, including FreeBSD-5, are still primarily based on models which could at best be called 'strained' as they are applied to modern systems. The true innovation has given way to basically just laying on hacks to add features, such as encrypted disks and security layering that in a better environment could be developed at far less cost and with far greater flexibility. We also believe that it is important to provide API solutions which allow reasonable backwards and forwards version compatibility, at least between userland and the kernel, in a mix-and-match environment. If one considers the situation from the ultimate in clustering... secure anonymous system clustering over the internet, the necessity of having properly specified APIs becomes apparent. Finally, we believe that a fully integrated and feature-full upgrade mechanism should exist to allow end users and system operators of all walks of life to easily maintain their systems. Debian Linux has shown us the way, but it is possible to do better. DragonFly is going to be a multi-year project at the very least. Achieving our goal set will require a great deal of groundwork just to reposition existing mechanisms to fit the new models. The goals link will take you to a more detailed description of what we hope to accomplish.
Unfortunately DragonFly doesn't yet have its own package manager, so some applications may not build or will require some extra effort like patches to build. But most if not all can be built using the DragonFly override of ports (DFPORTS) and PKGSRC
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"I don't think there's a keystroke logger that is able to work out where you clicked in the password entry box."
I'm sure keylogger/virus writers are scrambling to add that particular feature after reading your very informative comment. thanks
Although gentoo specific you still get the gist to get this to work on other distros.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=217412/
Using Jabber is very approriate for a corporate/company setup and imho better than a private mail system. We can send messages, chat, send files and even have alerts like news etc. Gotta love jabber.
comparing sybase 11 released 1995 interbase 4 released 1994 is that fair enough?
well interbase 4 was released 1994 and sql server 6.5 in 1996 now is that fair?
cmon Firebird(Interbase) is much better than this strapped DB http://www.sphere-data.com/docs/ib_vs_ss.shtml
is figuring out how to get them internet access
This line (-- "The man who sold his soul to code so much so quickly."--) on
tryand
fyi then. you can do ssh(server client) and vpn on Windows(TM)
backdoored...
hitting it again on with their classical line "The SCO Group is the sole owner of the AT&T Unix System V software licensing agreement" http://www.vnunet.com/news/1157433/
Scrabble would very easy for a computer. People need to have the words in their head so a computer needs the equivalent: a dictionary. Coupled with simple algorithms, an anagram solver plus strategic tile placement then a bruteforce method for the moves it will be unbeatable. Well if we can just memorize a dictionary and easily recall the words we probably have a chance in beating a computer. While CHESS does require more processing power and intuition it employs the same bruteforce technique to choose moves. As have been the dismay of AI researchers chess and scrabble taught little about AI that could mimic human like intelligence, strategy was missing. I think GO has replaced both the board games for AI reasearch.
they upgraded to FreeBSD 5.2.1+vinum nice one...
thats why i quoted promising :)
they are not "promising" anything no legal obligations or whatever to opensource so this is really not an announcement
There's maybe something wrong with your compilation
Mine is smooth and fast
Actually its faster cos dragging windows around doesn't bump up the cpu load to 100%.
And Im not using any third party drivers, just the old xfree driver(nv instead of nvidia)
A virus which kicks the other ones ass and then take up patrol duty What if it goes AMOK then the virus becomes something more vicious
Clearly there's no solution to DDoS
I hope ISPs on Internet2 adopt outgoing filters on certain kinds of traffic. This would lessen DDoS impact. Even with the adoption of IPv6, the anti-spoof mechanism isn't enough for an obvious and clever DDoS...
similar but not the same... :D
NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
performs differently in terms of scalability etc..
as Mr. Felix von Leitner once demonstrated http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ (isnt up anymore maybe he's busy with new benchmarks)