On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 02:16:34PM +0100, John Marino wrote: > > Fair enough, but I detect that interest in DragonFly waned when it was > stated some original goals were no longer valid or of prime concern and > the new goals were never published. So I continue to believe that the > lack of goals with realistic date targets hurts the project from the > point of interest and mind share.
Besides the lack of direction, I also believe DragonFly is suffering from a lack of polish in a few key areas. Some wonderful technologies such as Hammer can't unfortunately be used in places they would shine in due to various shortcomings. What I would like to see first: - Dynamically linked binaries in the root filesystem so that we can use NSS/LDAP and PAM technologies like on Linux and FreeBSD. This can be done right now. - pam_mount integration - Kerberos integration Without these technologies, DragonFly can't be used in an Enterprise environment. Other things which should be done: - Stabilize the drm/radeon kernel code so that it can be used by default with newer Xorg drivers - Add a -x flag to iostat (à la Solaris) -- Francois Tigeot
