On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM, 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? I suspect the > HAMMER filesystem to be the popular choice, but what other features > affect or do you see affecting your day to day life as an > administrator, developer, or [insert use case here], now or in the > future?
Many little things have drawn this mostly-lurker here. Personally, some other BSD (I think NetBSD would be my second choice) or a decent Linux distro could also fill my needs. For me, DragonFly was/is one of several alternatives, though the one presently chosen - and likely to remain so. I ventured into BSD-land sometime in 2007, trying out FreeBSD (later also OpenBSD for my laptop, used for some time until I switched it to DragonFly like the "desktop" computer also running it by that time - the increase in "responsiveness" on the laptop was dramatic!) until I later read on the FreeBSD lists some brief discussions about DragonFly and HAMMER (which I remember was derided at the time as "dillonware" that would never materialize :P ). Later - late July of 2008 - I installed DragonFly and tried it out, and set up a HAMMER partition. I've used DragonFly and HAMMER ever since, following the development branch with varying regularity - it both works well and is interesting. I've never had (nor presently have) the time to really dig into the code in detail and contribute - the only (small) contribution was when, already having the idea, I threw myself into the undo utility code and came up with the patch for giving versions as indexes, accepted following some cleanup. For that, all that was needed was looking at the code, thinking for a bit and reading a few man pages - most contributions, to the un-initiated, would take significantly more time and effort before you could code them. Still, it is interesting to follow the developments, even though my experience is too narrow to understand all the details of many of the things going on. -- Joel K. Pettersson
