Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

[Robert Clark <robert_clark@xxxxxxx>]

I enjoyed working with pre Sys-V SunOS. I blame taking the C compiler  
out of the distro, the giving in to peer pressure to move to Sys-V,  
and the decade lost in the pipe dream of replacing Windows with  
platform-independent Java for the turning of Sun Microsystems into an  
overpriced chair for Larry.

FreeBSD had a similar syntax to SunOS, and 2.0.5R included a driver  
for my Adaptec 2940, where Slackware did not. (Downloading 240k chunks  
of OS to 1.2MB floppies, over 56k frame relay?)

FreeBSD-Questions was a great place to learn. (ftp.cdrom.com was  
impressive)

Around the time progress on soft updates began to slow, it became  
clear (to me at least) not much would happen with getting FreeBSD out  
from under the big giant lock. Watching various scheduler or other  
improvements get trampled by NIH, made it clear the bureaucracy was  
moribund, and it was time for a change.

The Walnut Creek / Wind River / BSDi crap did nothing to create good  
feelings either.

Matt's mythical connection with Dice, Backplane, and the fact that  
he's beholding to no one, all help to put the OS in a category by  
itself. I really don't know of any other principal architect/developer  
who is as active, responsive, technically progressive, or nice to chat  
with as Matt.

Variant symlinks <smile>. A filesystem with richer semantics than UFS?  
<grin>

Good stuff.

Back to lurking,
[RC]


On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Samuel J. Greear wrote:

> This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the
> list just as much as the regular posters.
>
> What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or
> participate in its development by following this list? Technical
> features, methodologies, something about the community? I suspect the
> HAMMER filesystem to be the popular choice, but what other features
> affect or do you see affecting your day to day life as an
> administrator, developer, or [insert use case here], now or in the
> future?
>
> Thanks in advance for your response.
>
> Best,
> Sam