DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly is developing a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems.
DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating system as BSD and Linux and is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs.
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- Mostly written in C
- Mature, well-established codebase
- Large, active development team
- Apple Public Source License may conflict with GPL
- Artistic License may conflict with GPL
Updated 02 Jul 2009 18:25 UTC
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Release schedule shifts
Matthew Dillon is shifting the semiannual release schedule over by two months; new releases of DragonFly will happen in March and September. The current July-December releases hit right on major (U.S.) holidays and too close to quarterly pkgsrc
2.3.1 packages on the way
I’m copying pkgsrc packages to avalon.dragonflybsd.org that were built on a 2.3.1 DragonFly system; if you’re running a 2.3.1 or more recent DragonFly setup, pkg_radd should pull right from this, once the 8G of files finish copying over.
GSoC: Midterms!
The Google Summer of Code midterms are almost upon us. Starting July 6th (that’s next Monday), students and mentors will need to fill out a survey detailing how the project is going. There’s a preliminary version at Google Docs, so you know what to expect when they go up on the GSoC site. They will [...]
First Ethernet cable ever
From Xerox PARC: The first Ethernet cable, plus diagrams from Bob Metcalfe.
New installation option
Sascha Wildner has added an option to the installer to create a UFS boot and Hammer volume as an install disk, in addition to the all-Hammer and all-UFS options already available. Programs expecting the booting kernel to be on UFS will be able to find it, but users still get the benefits of Hammer.
Updated: It [...]
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- http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
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- New BSD License
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| Codebase | 5,042,827 |
| Effort (est.) | 1540 Person Years |
| Avg. Salary | $ year |
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