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| | TriBUG: Overview of BSD |
 | | BSD, or Berkeley Software Distribution, began in 1977 from the efforts of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. | | | BSD also continues to evolve, most recently with SMP development, the soft-updates implementation in FFS, and Kirk McKusick's development of UFS2, which has now been integrated into at least the current branches of most of the BSDs. | | | Organizationally, BSD, in all its forms past and present, has been and is driven by a set of design goals established by a team of core individuals and with those design goals kept in mind while striving for improvement. |
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http://www.tribug.org/bsd.html
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| | asia.internet.com Realtime News for IT Managers |
| | While DragonFly BSD is compatible with binaries for FreeBSD 4.x, it is not compatible with binaries for version 5 or 6. | | | The latest version of DragonFly BSD is now available with a new package management system that pushes the project further away from its FreeBSD roots. | | | DragonFly BSD developers were not satisfied with the development of |
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http://asia.internet.com/news/article.php/3576426
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| | Beyond The Big Three BSDs, BSD Alternatives |
| | PC BSD is different, as its focus is on a desktop-oriented (personal computing) operating system with all the functionality, stability, and performance of BSD, but with a tool set and environment that reflects a more personal environment. | | | The DragonFly BSD operating system is a fork of the main FreeBSD 4.x operating system.It was produced by Matt Dillon, who felt the development direction (particularly threading and SMP choices) of FreeBSD 5 would result in bad performance. | | | A number of rules are followed to support this approach, including the requirement for easy installation and removal of software, backward compatibility without restricting new functionality, and a low-overhead approach that keeps the size of the operating system and its requirements to a minimum. |
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http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3565016
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| | IRC Log |
| | DragonFly uses inherently lighter-weight mechanisms and it should be possible to stay ahead of FreeBSD-5 as we come up to our first release in a little less then a year. | | | I still recommend to Dragonfly developers with multiple machines to keep the development tree on a different machine then the one running the results. | | | So far the features we have implemented in DragonFly appear to be fairly optimal in regards to performance and flexibility. |
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http://www.slashnet.org/forums/DragonflyBSD-20031009.html
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| | ONLamp.com -- Behind DragonFly BSD |
| | Currently, the DragonFly community is pretty much a mix of various types of people, some are taking the "hmm, interesting, let's wait-and-see" approach, while others are dissatisfied with SMP methodologies adopted by FreeBSD or are interested in upcoming features of DragonFly. | | | What DragonFly aims to provide is a SMP-capable infrastructure that is inherently easy to understand and develop for. | | | FreeBSD had always been on the forefront of implementing new ideas and if DragonFly is about anything it's about implementing new ideas. |
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/08/dragonfly_bsd_interview.html
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| | CodeWeavers CrossOver Office for BSD petition |
| | BSD is a very good system and should be able to use this software. | | | BSD users are the most knowledgeable *nix users. | | | I use it for work with Windows apps, and *BSD cannot be seriously considered by the company due to unavailability of certain apps - one of this it would solve. |
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http://www.bsdnexus.com/petition.asp
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| | bsdforums.org - FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD forums and news: DragonFlyBSD CDROM Readme File |
| | If you just want to play with DragonFly and not mess with your hard disk, this CDROM boots into a fully operational console-based system, though without swap it should be noted that you are limited by available memory. | | | You must be familiar with BSD style UNIX systems to do installations manually. | | | It is a good idea to test your hardware for compatibility from a CD boot before spending time installing the dist on your hard disk. |
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http://www.freebsdforums.org/docs/dragonflybsd/1.2.0-readme.html
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| | BSDFreak - News |
| | We present several ways of installing BSD on the IBM Netvista S40, a so-called legacy free computer. | | | The most imortant changes are not user-visible but in the build process, but as a result of this, the 2.88MB size restriction is gone and now only the machine's RAM is the limit, allowing me to add a lot of drivers again. | | | The binaries are based on JDK 1.5 and work with the official FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 6.0 releases on the i386 platform. |
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http://www.bsdfreak.org
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| | BSD Newsletter |
| | An advanced BSD UNIX operating system for PC-compatibles, developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. | | | A 4.4 BSD Lite-based server and emulation library that provides free Unix functionality to a Mach-based system. | | | From the website: "DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series." |
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http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/Flavours
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| | Main Page - DFWiki |
| | If you want to communicate live with other DragonFly BSD users and developers, you can reach many of us on IRC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat) (channel #dragonflybsd on the EFNet (http://www.efnet.org) network). | | | Check out the Projects Page if you are looking for a specific project to work on. | | | If you want to bring in patches from other projects like FreeBSD, you can use tools like cvsps and cscvs to extract patchsets. |
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http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org
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| | DragonFly BSD Digest |
| | The pkgsrc package sysutils/iwi_firmware will do it, though it’s not packaged as a binary, so there’s some trickery to install. | | | I can’t find the original post, but apparently pkg_install no longer complains about minor changes in system name, which can affect anyone installing binary packages. | | | I can't find the original post, but apparently pkg_install no longer complains about minor changes in system name, which can affect anyone installing binary packages. |
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http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.rdf
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| | DragonFly - Download |
| | DragonFly release branches only contain bug and security fixes and are designed for people running production systems who don't want any surprises. | | | First-time DragonFly users are probably best served using a preview snapshot. | | | For example, you might be running DragonFly X.Y.Z-RELEASE. |
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http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/download.cgi
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| | NewsForge Dragonfly BSD is born (almost) |
| | Glanz writes "DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series. | | | These operating systems belong in the same class as Linux in that they are based on UNIX ideals and APIs. | | | You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BSD's future. |
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http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/07/21/1258234.shtml
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| | DragonFly BSD Updates - OSNews.com |
| | Among them are a number of pkgsrc changes that will finally allow the developers to retire the aging FreeBSD 4 ports system, and allow the use of much more up to date third party software. | | | In addition to the ongoing work to prepare the system to run free of the MP lock, a number of smaller, but important subprojects are nearing completion. | | | The DragonFly project has been making progress of late adding features desired for their upcoming release. |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12231
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| | Gentoo Linux Projects -- Gentoo/*BSD |
| | Ways to contact Gentoo/*BSD developers include the IRC Channel #gentoo-bsd on Freenode, as well as the mailing list gentoo-bsd@gentoo.org. | | | To subscribe just send an empty email to gentoo-bsd-subscribe@gentoo.org and follow the instructions included in the reply. | | | All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/index.xml
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| | gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel |
| | I also separated system errors like parsing failures from nfs error returns. | | | > > This is interesting; is the intention to abstract and unify the nfs rpc lay= > er > between the BSD's? | | | The code works in OpenBSD3.8 and the port to Dragonfly seems to have been straightforward, sofar. |
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http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel
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| | The BSD Installer |
| | If you have a lot of memory (2G or more), the problem is an overflow error internal to the installer. | | | My system has been installed, but some of the files are owned by an unknown user (uid | | | It is generally harmless, and can be fixed by changing the owner and group of each of these files to |
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http://www.bsdinstaller.org/errata.html
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| | SourceForge.net: JFS for DragonFly BSD |
| | The aim of this project is to develop a port of IBM's JFS for DragonFly BSD. | | | View list of RSS feeds available for this project | | | License: BSD License, GNU General Public License (GPL) |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfs4bsd
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| | DragonFly Handbook |
| | The latest version of this document is always available from the DragonFly web site or | | | If you find instructions here that no longer apply to DragonFly, please contact the documentation mailing list at | | | While many functions should be similar on DragonFly, some differences should be expected. |
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http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook
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| | The BSD Installer |
| | The BSD Installer is a lightweight system installation and configuration tool for *BSD operating systems, designed with tractability, ease-of-use, and robustness in mind. | | | BSD Installer release 1.1.3 packages are available for testing. | | | BSD Installer release 1.1.4 packages and a pre-built DragonFly ISO image containing the installer are available for testing. |
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| | TriBUG: BSD Family Tree |
| | Since that time, many changes have been made, resulting in the various BSD releases throughout Unix's history. | | | BSD was originally derived from Sixth Edition UNIX, which was released in May 1975 by Bell Telephone Laboratories. | | | These derivations and versions can be seen by viewing the BSD Family Tree. |
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| | Aaron's DragonFly BSD stuff |
| | rc_subr: this overrides sysutils/rc_subr to use DragonFly's version rather than the FreeBSD version, which breaks horribly on a DFly system. | | | Being a fan of all the BSDs, I thought I'd play with the new code, and try to help out where I can. | | | Matt (as well as some other contributors) was unhappy with the direction taken in FreeBSD 5, and decided to create his own version to try technologies like Light Weight Kernel Threads and Variant Symlinks. |
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| | Daemon News '200308' : '"BSD is dying, film at 10 "' |
| | An obvious reason why Matt is starting his own project is that he is no longer on the FreeBSD project: he was expelled from it a few months ago. | | | One of the problems with the organization of the FreeBSD project is that it's not fun. | | | There were different things to do, things which were more obvious than they are now. |
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http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/dadvocate.html
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| | Dragonfly - MSR - Mountain Safety Research : Stoves : DragonFly |
| | The aims of this project are to raise the profile of dragonflies in Ireland, map their distributions and | | | Dragonfly Sailboats provide the newest in trimaran architecture featuring We now offer Brochures on all of our Dragonfly Sailboats in a PDF format. | | | Amazon.com: Dragonfly in Amber: Books by Diana Gabaldon. |
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http://www.forsurfer.com/?q=dragonfly
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| | Annoucning DragonFly BSD! |
| | We eventually intend to backport many FreeBSD-5 features into the new tree, but that is not where the initial focus will be. | | | This has snowballed into a far more ambitious project which is now ready for wider participation. | | | The preliminary 'proving' work I have done is now available on the new DragonFly site. |
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http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-July/006889.html
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| | SilBSD Website |
| | The Computer Room, 317 Market Place, Fairview Heights, IL location | | | On line manuals for GNU EMACS, Make, Sed, gcc, etc here | | | Office-BSD - full-featured Desktop BSD based on NetBSD |
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| | DragonFly Index |
| | After installation, one would most like either wish to upgrade their source tree or start installing various software. | | | DragonFly is not yet aimed very much at the beginning user, but someone experienced with any of the BSDs shouldn't have many problems with it--it still has many similarities to the 4.x branch of FreeBSD, but already, there are major differences. | | | DragonFly BSD is improving daily, however, the online resources can be a little difficult to find. |
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http://www.scottro.net/dfly/dfindex.html
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| | Impressions on DesktopBSD; DragonFly BSD News - OSNews.com |
| | And lastly, also concerning DragonFly BSD: "Recently spent some time getting the Mach lite kernel up and running for research on the idea can the system be made to run in production." | | | Installing BSD on IBM Netvista S40, Pt 1: FreeBSD Installation | | | Desktop uses a crisp and clean KDE desktop with an attractive theme with a standard selection of applications." Secondly, DragonFly BSD asks its users to test some drivers for wireless networking. |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12781
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| | BSD Newsletter: FreeBSD forked: DragonFly |
| | In a posting to the freebsd-hackers mailing list, Matthew Dillon announced his new DragonFly BSD project: "to move kernel development along an entirely new path towards SMP, and to completely rewrite the packaging and distribution system." | | | The status webpage says the threads is mostly done and that the I/O device model and port/messaging interface is in progress. | | | The website says DragonFly BSD is going to be a multi-year project. |
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http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2003/07/News90.html
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| | OpenBSD 3.6 is released, NetBSD has a new logo, and FreeBSD 5.3 is delayed. | | | Sam is a council member for the UK Unix Users' group and was a founder of the Manchester BSD User Group. | | | The random ideas people have for Geodata Related link: http://www.whereihad myfirstkiss.com/ The random things that people think to do with mapping information: where I had my first kiss. |
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2037
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| | TuxMobil: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly and Mobile Computers (Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs, Mobile Phones) |
| | aims at supporting the Intel®; PRO/Wireless 2100/2200BG/2915ABG network adapters (core components of Intel®; Centrino™ technology) under *BSD. | | | FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly and Mobile Computers (Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs, Mobile Phones) | | | TuxMobil: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly and Mobile Computers (Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs, Mobile Phones) |
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| | www.bsd.org |
| | We're compiling a list of good books about UNIX, BSD, and good programming style. | | | This page is intended to provide a variety of resources for users of the various commercial and freely-available bsd operating systems. | | | **BSD is a registered trademark of UUnet Technologies, Inc. |
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| | DragonFlyBSD: Process Checkpointing Support |
| | The Ctrl+E (^E) signal can be used to checkpoint a program, for which produces a checkpoint file, that can be later used with /usr/bin/checkpt for restoration. | | | This can be useful for programs that take a long time to complete, such as ones used in scientific research. | | | Some work still remains to be done; although the checkpoint feature can be used on many base utilities, except for obvious stuff such as sockets which are not guaranteed to be around when the program is restored. |
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| | BSD News |
| | pkgsrc is a portable package management system, developed by NetBSD, and supports DragonFly officially since October 2004. | | | Matt Dillon has announced that the next release of DragonFly BSD will use NetBSD& pkgsrc as its official package management system, instead of "dfports" (FreeBSD& Ports with DragonFly overrides), which had already been abandoned by developers in favour of pkgsrc over the last few months. |
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http://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5157
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| | Geek Style: DragonFly BSD 1.0 |
| | Boot process is much like FBSD 5.x, except that elf deamon ASCII art has changed to DragonFly mascot. | | | I will install it on a standalone machine and will post my observations as soon as I test it. | | | Installer looks very good and is very easy while it is very configurable. |
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http://farrokhi.net/blog/archives/000478.html
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| | [Patches] [ python-Patches-890203 ] DragonFly BSD support |
| | This patch is valid for DragonFly 1.0-CURRENT using either GCC 2.95.4 or GCC 3.3.3 20040126. | | | The only known issue is a test case failure for test_fcntl. | | | At the moment, DragonFly (as a platform) is nearly identical to FreeBSD (from which is was forked), so the generated the patch was largely mechanical. |
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http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2004-July/015375.html
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| | DragonFly BSD - ieXbeta Board |
| | and then working on a new approach to the BSD kernel. | | | Hello everyone! For the last few months I have been investigating |
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| | DragonFly BSD Mailing List Archives |
| | If there are errors in the display of this archive, please contact 'docs at dragonflybsd.org'. | | | This page archives posts on the DragonFly BSD mailing lists/newsgroups. | | | Each list is organized by year and month, available ordered by thread or by date, and updated hourly. |
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http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive
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| | BSD News |
| | Matt Dillon announced the availability of DragonFly BSD's 1.0 Release Candidate #1. |
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