DragonFly BSD Announced

JoshRendlesham writes "Matt Dillon announced today on the freebsd-hackers mailing list the creation of the DragonFly BSD project. It seeks to build on the work of FreeBSD 4.x, including a rewrite of the packaging and distribution system, among other goals."

In other news

[imipak]

Brad Pitt announced a new fork from the -AC kernel tree.

Wonderful

[Anonymous Coward]

This is great news. God knows we need another BSD, I don't think anyone is happy that currently we only have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, TrustedBSD, XMach, Darwin, and Microsoft Windows.

Re:In other news

[Tumbleweed]

> Brad Pitt announced a new fork from the -AC kernel tree

Rule 1: You do not talk about the -AC kernel tree.
RUle 2: You DO NOT talk about the -AC kernel tree.
Rule 3: If it's your first night in the -AC kernel tree, you HAVE to post.

administrators

[geekmetal]

Finally, we believe that a fully integrated and feature-full upgrade mechanism should exist to allow end users and system operators of all walks of life to easily maintain their systems. Debian Linux has shown us the way, but it is possible to do better.

Oh no! Who will pay the administrators the big bucks now?

Obligatory Dying Post

[Rakefighter]

Dragonfly BSD is dying...

What a great name idea!

[jednet]

What were they thinking when they named their project after a bug?

Re:Dragonfly BSD, life expectancy?

[Gogo Dodo]

Dragonflies live longer than 24 hours. See the British Dragonfly Society FAQ [dragonflysoc.org.uk].

No, no...

[fm6]

This isn't the actor, it's the lawman [tvland.com]. Jeez, Slashdotters are so ignorant!

*BSD Basher Dead at 16

[slickwillie]

Anonymous Howard, who made a career of proclaiming the demise of the *BSD Operating Systems, was found dead at his keyboard this afternoon. He had just turned 16. An unnamed police spokeswoman said it was an apparent case of "autoerotic asphyxiation gone haywire". [You know the rest of the story.]

Re:Wonderful

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, TrustedBSD, XMach, Darwin, and Microsoft Windows.

And listed in order of stability, too! Informative post. :)

Re:Wonderful

[yanestra]

This is great news. God knows we need another BSD, I don't think anyone is happy that currently we only have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, TrustedBSD, XMach, Darwin, and Microsoft Windows.

Unhappy with *BSD?

• Too fast?
• Too stable?
• Too scalable?

Solution: Simply fork off a new Windows branch and make it a better server OS.

Re:PORTAGE!

[Simon Kongshoj]

That's it. I'm going to mail Daniel Robbins and ask him to make the next in his brilliant series of articles at IBM DeveloperWorks a "OS advocacy for overzealous Gentoo freaks" piece.

The first and most important bit: Always bring up Gentoo whenever ANYONE mentions ANY other operating system! This is of UTMOST importance! Just like annoying potential customers works for Internet advertisers, annoying potential users must work for OS advocates!

Longhorn would kick ass if they installed unwanted software using PORTAGE instead of Windows Update!!!!! PR0T4G3 R0XX0RZ J00R B0XX0RS!

I'm going to be burned at the stake for this, but don't worry, my karma ensures that I'll be back as a lotus blossom to annoy all you bloody geeks with pollen.

Re:PORTAGE!

[hhw]

Portage on BSD is about as necessary as another Linux distribution.

Re:Wonderful

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, BSD has way too many distributions, lets see oh about 6.

Linux has about 2 x 10^4 distros.

Good point.....NOT

Re:In other news

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia BSD FORKS YOU!

Re:Wonderful

[Anonymous Coward]

Heathen!!! You've misquoted the holy scriptures once again! Anonymous Coward you will burn in hell for all eternity!

From the gospel according to BSDTroll:

"Thus sayeth the Torvalds, "Verily I say unto you, the wages of BSD is death."" (Nested quotes)

Re:In other news

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