DragonFly BSD was announced in July of this year, with Matt Dillon the originator and main weightlifter of this project. Development has been proceeding at a good clip, with a first release expected in 2004. Here’s some data on the amount of activity in the DragonFly source, as of the end of December 2003.
DragonFly Year-End summary for 2003
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48288 commits in a year? Matt Dillon is a freaking coding machine! That’s an average of 132 per day!
I’m looking very forward to DragonFly BSD. Its going in a different direction than FreeBSD and Linux — it’ll be interesting to see where it goes.
I am impressed, he is very dedicated to his work. First time I heard about this BSD and just reading some information from his website…really looks like he has a good direction and goal.
I wish him luck and will be following this OS to see how it turns out.
Matt Dillon is a freaking coding machine!
Yep, he is.. He’s very expert and skill, he can code anything very fast. 🙂 He has a lot of more stuff in his machine such as IPC (I think, soon will be complete), lwkt_token, IPI code optimization, networking code, AMD64 support and more.
I do hope some of their more interesting changes get merged back into FreeBSD in the not-too-distant future.
I am very impressed with the progress that has been made in such a short period of time, by so few developers. I believe that DragonFly will be nothing short of amazing.
I wish them luck. What they are aiming for seems to be very *clean*
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And let me code you for a little while – ooh
“Is this another expression of the programmer ethos of reinventing the wheel?”
Yeah, and there are far too many species of birds, monkeys, squirels and trees in the world. We should make the world a better place for small minds everywhere by killing all but one subtype of each species on Earth.
Idiot.
ummm nice try there, but garbage does have a point and if you had written your message in another way, you may also have a point, but i fail to see it.
Maybe what you where trying to say is, “choice is grand” ?
In which case i agree with you both.
king is right, theresnt only one species of tree in this world
anyone that invents an OS should be praised not blammed.
let the natural selection and human willing make the decission who stays who goes
about dragonfly they persue a diferent objective, but my concern is that freebsd team is somewhat dellaying 5-branch until they can get a fully recognazible “stable” 4-branch. PPl is talking about 4.10, 4.11 and so on..eee
I hope MAtt’s code gets backported into 4 as needed since he is a good programmer and we shall all not forget that. He was very importante and relevant on 4-branch.
Thanks Matt, i hope you success in your new (already mature) project!
“ummm nice try there, but garbage does have a point and if you had written your message in another way, you may also have a point, but i fail to see it.”
My point is that evolution works best when there is a large pool code that is evolving. Do you really think that Linux (for example) would continue evolving at such a fantastic rate if there was only one or two (or even a small handful!) of distributions instead of the hundreds we have?
Nonsense.
If you have ideas that you want to try that the maintainers of the big distros don’t see the value in (or would be far too much of a headache to implement) you’r submission will be shot down and the evolutionary experiment never got a chance to prove itself.
I agree with you, that Garbage does have a point, but I disagree as to the validity of it. Not every opinion is a valid one, regardless of our ‘right’ to have them. Often they conflict with reality either through design or ignorance, as did Garbage’s.
Yeah choice can be mind-boggling at times, but that’s a flaw in the mind of the boggled and not in the model. Just so you don’t think I’m a complete jerk, I’m the first one to admit that I’ve been wrong before, and will be wrong again, but not this time