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DragonFly BSD Alive

DragonFly BSD
KindOperating system
Appeared2003
StatusAlive
CreatorMatthew Dillon
FamilyBSD
Platformx86-64
Sourcewww.dragonflybsd.org ↗

Dillon's FreeBSD fork for SMP done differently — HAMMER filesystem and a kernel architecture argument made flesh.

Descended from FreeBSD
Created by Matthew Dillon

Matt Dillon forked FreeBSD 4.x in 2003 over the SMP direction — DragonFly BSD kept the 4.x threading model, built its own HAMMER filesystem, and pursued a clustered-SMP design FreeBSD had abandoned.\n\nStill developed; HAMMER2 is its current filesystem, and the project is the BSD world's 'road not taken.'

Sources

  1. dragonflybsd.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD