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DragonFly BSD
- lelf 13y agoSMP: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/ http://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/ FS: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/ http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/ Some of magic you can do with it: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/howtos/howtorecoverdataonhammerfs/ http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/howtos/howtorecoverdat...
- infruset 13y agoSurely the server hosting this is running.. DragonFly BSD? Then it is quite ironic that the page called "performance" doesn't even load :-)
- djcapelis 13y agoWell. It's near the top of HN right now, the server's probably getting hammered. Also.... maybe not: Server: Apache/2.2.24 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/1.0.1e DAV/2 Server: Apache/2.2.25 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.25 OpenSSL/1.0.1e Phusion_Passenger/4.0.23
- enjolras 13y agoI don't know why apache says freeBSD, but i'm pretty sure that the server is running DragonFly
- KyleSanderson 13y agoNot to be that guy, but this doesn't line up with a release or any actual changes with the fork. What are we looking at here?
- nnq 13y agoI don't get the reason for the post, but since it's here, I've always had questions about HAMMER: Can one use the HAMMER FS on Linux? Is there any guide for this? Is it reliable?
- IanChiles 13y agoCurrently, I don't think there's a fully working HAMMER implementation for Linux - there may be a read only one floating around though, IIRC
- UNIXgod 13y agoMaybe with fuse. No one has ported it too FreeBSD either which is to bad because having choices is a good thing™
- k2enemy 13y agoGenuinely curious... why is there a "™" at the end of "good thing"?
- rhizome 13y agoIt's a slang.
- imurray 13y ago"Good Thing" is often capitalized, or as above italicized, for emphasis in hacker circles. The idea is that it's established jargon [1] suggesting more specific meaning than a casual goodness remark (whether that's true or not, I'll let you decide). The TM is another such intensifier, with the informal meaning of "distinctive or characteristic", rather than literally trade-marked. [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/Good-Thing.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/Good-Thing.html
- ics 13y agoi.e. Meme-marked.
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- malkia 13y agoNever used any BSD, but probably used in some form through various entertainment devices (playstation, maybe others). So can anyone point what is are the most negative things about BSD, and DragonFlyBSD in compared to Linux, OSX and Windows. I'm really curious, and I would like to try it out - possibly on my Chromebook C7100 if it allows it so, or maybe my very old MBP (6 years), it's time to get rid of the dual booted Windows XP there.
- Moto7451 13y agoOS X uses portions of FreeBSD including the userland so if you're used to that you probably won't find too many gotchas when using FreeBSD in that regard. I've never touched a straight *BSD install to know the practical differences in configuration and maintenance vs OS X and Linux. I occasionally get caught by a difference between the BSD and GNU userlands so I've often contemplated giving one of the BSDs a go rather than my typical OS X/Debian/Ubuntu Dev/prod web server preference.
- rjzzleep 13y agoif you look through their drivers, they use a sort of c++ without exceptions, but last i remember from debugging network drivers on osx, they looked like they were forked from freebsd a fairly long time ago, but were for a long time close enough to be able to see the roots(i don't know if it's still like that)
- cpeterso 13y agoI think OS X uses NetBSD's userland.
- gaius 13y agoDragonfly is basically a glorious parallel universe in which the Amiga never died http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD
- rodgerd 13y agoPretty much. When I saw the early releases I was wondering iis that the Matt Dillon? And sure enough, it was.
- KryDos 13y agoSite is down or it's only my problem? (I can't open it)
- jensenbox 13y agoIt is not just you.
- frik 13y agoSo Dragonfly BSD is the WinNT* of UNIX world, interesting! "One big part of the goal set will be the creation of a middle 'emulation' layer which is managed by the kernel but runs in userland, which will take over all primary system call entry points (in userland) and convert them to syscall messages that the kernel understands. 4.x, 5.x, SysV, Linux, and other compatibility sets will be moved out of the kernel and into this middle layer." -- Matthew Dillon (main dev): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-July/007080.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-July... * think about subsystems like Win32, POSIX, OS/2 of the WinNT series operating system (XP, Vista, 7, 8, Xbox, ReactOS)
- UNIXgod 13y agoNo it's just BSD UNIX proper. quoted from: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/history/ http://www.dragonflybsd.org/history/ "the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series"
- weland 13y agoNetBSD does that as well.
- 4ad 13y agoAny BSD does that.
- csmuk 13y agoAnd look where it got NT. POSIX gone. OS/2 gone. NTVDM gone (on 64-bit). Ultimately we are left with an abstraction layer which abstracts nothing because Win32 is the base level abstraction for all the other abstractions now. Metro, WP etc run on top of it all like a massive house of cards throwing 0x80004005 around to piss off devs. If you know the difference between Nt and Zw you'll get what I mean :) It's all a big shame because the NT native API[1] and NTFS are absolutely flipping marvelous. Compatibility layers got destroyed by virtualization as well. Whole emulation layer thing was a bad idea for NT and this as well. [1] Totally undocumented other than the leaked Windows NT/2000 source code a few years ago.
- whitneyrblack 13y agomy classmate's mother makes $82/hr on the computer. She has been fired from work for ten months but last month her pay check was $12046 just working on the computer for a few hours. why not try this out=======> jobs25.ℭＯM
- blahbl4hblahtoo 13y agoDoes anyone else see weird links on the "features" page?
- radoslawc 13y agoYes, spam links in part about kernel memory allocator.
- blahbl4hblahtoo 13y agowhat the hell? I wonder if they know about it?
- zandorg 13y agoI remember Matt Dillon's DICE C compiler for the Amiga. It was only a trial version so only stdlib stuff. I wrote a little HTML viewer in it which used ANSI codes to display bold text, italic, underline etc.
- Corrado 13y agoI was wondering where I had heard the name "Matt Dillion" before. Years ago I was a big Amiga user and a budding programer. I tried the DICE compiler a couple of times but never built anything much, mostly because it was the trial version too. I wonder what type of computing world we would be in if OSS were more prominent back in the late 80's / early 90's. Imagine what we could have built with an open source compiler (GCC) and a bunch of example code (Github) for the Amiga. Wow! :)
- UNIXgod 13y agoFWIW you can run AmigaOS on pre-intel based macs: http://www.morphos-team.net/intro http://www.morphos-team.net/intro
- patrickg_zill 13y agoI am a big fan of ZFS, but after looking over the pages I have to admit to wanting to give the HAMMER filesystem a try. ZFS performance under Linux is "good" but not great.
- 4ad 13y agoSorry to spoil your fun, but HAMMER doesn't work on Linux, at least nowhere as well as ZFS.
- patrickg_zill 13y agoSorry, I should have mentioned I meant HAMMER under DragonFly, in the sense I can either run a virtualized storage VM or use it on a standalone server. Yes, I don't think there is a working port for Linux.