Intreview with DragonflyBSD developers

[n0cmonkey]

Here it is.

I skimmed over it, but I'm planning on reading it at some point. Light Weight Kernel Threads just sounds better and better every time I read about it.

 

[kamper]

I'm amazed by the number of people willing to write/maintain new operating systems. Although I can't claim to understand most of what they were talking about at anything more than a superficial level I think it's great that there are so many different branches of developpers innovating. As long as the new technology is compartmentalized well enough so that other people can eventually use it then computer science as a whole benefits.

Oh but I have trouble believing that that one guy was 17! Was it a typo? I mean, assuming he is a genius capable of learning all that stuff at such a young age, where does he find the time? Doesn't he go to school? I guess I'm just envious 😛

Thanks for the link n0c

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: kamper
I'm amazed by the number of people willing to write/maintain new operating systems. Although I can't claim to understand most of what they were talking about at anything more than a superficial level I think it's great that there are so many different branches of developpers innovating. As long as the new technology is compartmentalized well enough so that other people can eventually use it then computer science as a whole benefits.

Oh but I have trouble believing that that one guy was 17! Was it a typo? I mean, assuming he is a genius capable of learning all that stuff at such a young age, where does he find the time? Doesn't he go to school? I guess I'm just envious 😛

Thanks for the link n0c

Maintaining a distribution doesn't require all that much knowledge - if you can do Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch (they're VERY VERY well documented), you have the necessary skills to maintain at least a variation distro (e.g. knoppix vs debian).

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Maintaining a distribution != writing/maintaining an operating system. 😉

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Maintaining a distribution != writing/maintaining an operating system. 😉

I was under the apparentely incorrect impression that DragonflyBSD was a spinoff of one of the other BSDs.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Here it is.

I skimmed over it, but I'm planning on reading it at some point. Light Weight Kernel Threads just sounds better and better every time I read about it.

Ahh, interesting, this is the distro that Matt Dillon apparently started after having that spat with the FreeBSD team. That whole mess was covered by Slashdot some great while ago.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Maintaining a distribution != writing/maintaining an operating system. 😉

Goes to show how much I know about it! 😱

 

[n0cmonkey]

This isn't a distribution. It was a fork of FreeBSD 4. Since the fork, the DFly team has dont a LOT of work to change and enhance things.