Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:40:33 GMT From: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/70310: [PATCH] Add information about DragonFly Message-ID: <200408201640.i7KGeXSH034071@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/70310; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: docs/70310: [PATCH] Add information about DragonFly
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:37:43 +0200
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Attach patch since URL's makes PR's difficult to work with.
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Joel
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--- article.sgml Wed Aug 11 13:54:33 2004
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@@ -170,9 +170,11 @@
and the first version of FreeBSD was not ready until the end of the
year. In the meantime, the code base had diverged sufficiently to
make it difficult to merge. In addition, the projects had different
- aims, as we will see below. In 1996, a further project,
- <ulink url="http://www.OpenBSD.org/">OpenBSD</ulink>, split off from
- NetBSD.</para>
+ aims, as we will see below. In 1996,
+ <ulink url="http://www.OpenBSD.org/">OpenBSD</ulink>; split off from
+ NetBSD, and in 2003,
+ <ulink url="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFlyBSD</ulink>; split
+ of from FreeBSD.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
@@ -238,7 +240,8 @@
distributions, of course). In the following section, we will look at BSD
and compare it to Linux. The description applies most closely to
FreeBSD, which accounts for an estimated 80% of the BSD installations,
- but the differences from NetBSD and OpenBSD are small.</para>
+ but the differences from NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD are small.
+ </para>
<sect2>
<title>Who owns BSD?</title>
@@ -345,7 +348,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>BSD releases</title>
- <para>Each BSD project provides the system in three different
+ <para>FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD provides the system in three different
<quote>releases</quote>. As with Linux, releases are assigned a
number such as 1.4.1 or 3.5. In addition, the version number has a
suffix indicating its purpose:</para>
@@ -399,7 +402,7 @@
<title>What versions of BSD are available?</title>
<para>In contrast to the numerous Linux distributions, there are only
- three open source BSDs. Each BSD project maintains its own source
+ four major open source BSDs. Each BSD project maintains its own source
tree and its own kernel. In practice, though, there appear to be
fewer divergences between the userland code of the projects than there
is in Linux.</para>
@@ -430,6 +433,14 @@
choice of security-conscious organizations such as banks, stock
exchanges and US Government departments. Like NetBSD, it runs on
a number of platforms.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>DragonFlyBSD aims for high performance and scalability under
+ everything from a single-node UP system to a massively clustered system.
+ DragonFlyBSD has several long-range technical goals, but focus lies on
+ providing a SMP-capable infrastructure that is easy to understand,
+ maintain and develop for.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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