Directory of DragonFly Resources

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DragonFly BSD is a fork of FreeBSD, begun June 2003. Motive: the methods and techniques adopted for threading and symetric multiprocessing (SMP) in FreeBSD 5 would perform poorly and be hard to maintain.

Resources in This Category

• A Quick Review of DragonFly BSD 1.4

  http://www.osnews.com/story/13352
  Concise, with links, forum comments. [OSNews.com]

• APOLLO

  http://apollo.backplane.com/
  Matthew Dillon personal page: brief introduction, links to projects; software: DIABLO backbone news transit system, DICE Amiga C compile, XMAKE.

• Behind DragonFly BSD

  http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/08/dragonfly_bsd_interview.html
  Interview of core developers (Matthew Dillon, Joerg Sonnenberger, Jeffrey Hsu, Hiten Pandya) on their goals. [ONLamp.com]

• BSD Cross Reference: DragonFly

  http://bxr.su/DragonFly/
  A source-code search engine, based on an improved version of OpenGrok, allows one to grok — profoundly understand — the source code of DragonFly BSD.

• DistroWatch.com: DragonFly BSD

  http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=dragonflybsd
  Lists: summary, links, features, news.

• DragonFly BSD

  http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
  Fork of FreeBSD 4.11, focus: scalability, robustness, and debuggability in several broad system traits, especially threading and symetric multiprocessing, SMP.

• DragonFly BSD Digest

  http://www.dragonflydigest.com/
  News Weblog with large archives, links to BSD and DragonFly related sites.

• Interview with Matthew Dillon from DragonFly BSD

  http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/03/bsdtalk022-interview-with-matthew.html
  Lead developer talks on MP3 file, with forum comments. [bsdtalk]

• Interview with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD

  http://www.osnews.com/story/6338
  Lead developer comments on his goals, with links, forum comments. [OSNews.com]

• Quiet Computing with BSD

  http://sensors.cnst.su/fanctl/
  Fan control with sysctl hw.sensors and lm(4) on OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD.

• Wikipedia: DragonFly BSD

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD
  Encyclopedia article about the Unix-like operating system, including history and future directions.

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