Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: 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? First of all, I'm a FreeBSD user (since 2.0.5), and I'm not

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Today I think that the SSI goal has become less important. :The cluster hype has diminished and been partially :replaced by the cloud hype. Today, it is extremely :important to have excellent SMP scalability. Multi-core :systems are common, my desktop at home is a 6-core AMD :Phenom II X6 which

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Clark
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

pkgsrc package builds for 2.8

2010-09-22 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
The next release of pkgsrc, 2010Q3, is due out Oct. 1st. DragonFly 2.8 is going to be out soon after. I stopped the automatic builds of pkgsrc in the various places I'm building it, as I don't think there's going to be any changes to really catch at this point. So, I expect to have

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-22 Thread David Rhodus
On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these : http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=18120%20600038493IsNodeId=1name=1TB -DR

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these : : :http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=18120%20600038493IsNodeId=1name=1TB : :-DR I'm a bit leery of PCIe based SSDs. They have a ton of bandwidth but they are also going to be driver-dependent and