From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 20 16:40:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB65516A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:40:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D84743D39 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:40:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7KGeXTk034072 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:40:33 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7KGeXSH034071; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:40:33 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:40:33 GMT Message-Id: <200408201640.i7KGeXSH034071@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org From: Joel Dahl Subject: Re: docs/70310: [PATCH] Add information about DragonFly X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joel Dahl List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:40:33 -0000 The following reply was made to PR docs/70310; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joel Dahl To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/70310: [PATCH] Add information about DragonFly Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:37:43 +0200 --=-fHH9b2f7RShxD2d5GQpZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Attach patch since URL's makes PR's difficult to work with. -- Joel --=-fHH9b2f7RShxD2d5GQpZ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=dfly.diff Content-Type: text/x-patch; name=dfly.diff; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --- article.sgml Wed Aug 11 13:54:33 2004 +++ new.article.sgml Wed Aug 11 13:53:37 2004 @@ -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, - OpenBSD, split off from - NetBSD. + aims, as we will see below. In 1996, + OpenBSD split off from + NetBSD, and in 2003, + DragonFlyBSD split + of from FreeBSD. @@ -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. + but the differences from NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD are small. + Who owns BSD? @@ -345,7 +348,7 @@ BSD releases - Each BSD project provides the system in three different + FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD provides the system in three different releases. 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: @@ -399,7 +402,7 @@ What versions of BSD are available? 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. @@ -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. + + + + 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. --=-fHH9b2f7RShxD2d5GQpZ--