Samuel J. Greear wrote: > This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the > list just as much as the regular posters. > > 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? > > Thanks in advance for your response. > > Best, > Sam
First some history. I started with the project very early on, nearly from Matts initial email to the freebd mailing lists announcing the project. At the time doing anything with FreeBSD to me, just seemed like slogging through mud. In all fairness FreeBSD was going through some changes back then. However working on dfly was simply fun. No arguments, no silliness about we have always done it this way, and will always do it this way regardless of how whatever your idea is performs in practice. The first argument that I remember with dfly was a minor one, and the solution, in this case was both improvements where committed. It became apperant very early that whatever the topic the merit of what was suggested was what decisions where going to based on. Now on to some more subtle points:
