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DragonFly BSD

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DragonFly BSD is an open source, Unix-like operating system focused on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP). Features introduced in DragonFly BSD include Light Weight Kernel Threads and the HAMMER filesystem.[1][2][3]

Matthew Dillon created DragonFly BSD from FreeBSD 4.8 code in 2003. Matthew Dillon was formerly a part of the FreeBSD community. Dillon disagreed with FreeBSD 5's approach to SMF. Many were disappointed with the performance and stability FreeBSD 5's early releases.[4][5][6][7][8] Dillion split from the FreeBSD project in order to develop the FreeBSD 4 series in the direction he felt was best.[9][10][11]

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  1. "DragonFlyBSD: features". DragonFlyBSD.org. 2010-07-10. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  2. "DragonFlyBSD: hammer". DragonFlyBSD.org. 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  3. Holwerda, Thom (2009-02-18). "DragonFly BSD 2.2 Released". OSNews. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  4. Loli, Eugenia (2003-04-28). "Focus on FreeBSD: Interview with the Core Team". OSNews. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  5. jdw (2008-05-12). "Experimental FreeBSD 7 + ZFS + MySQL technology trial". NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Blog. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  6. Loli, Eugenia (2003-11-01). "FreeBSD: 5.2-Release Todo". OSNews. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  7. Adams, David (2004-12-21). "FreeBSD 5.3: "Stable" But Not Production-Ready". OSNews. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  8. Willis, Nathan (2012-02-01). "FreeBSD and release engineering". LWN.net. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  9. Dillon, Matthew; Sonnenberger, Joerg; Hsu, Jeffrey; Pandya, Hiten (2004-08-07). "Behind DragonFly BSD" (Interview). Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi. Archived from the original on 2011-05-13. Retrieved 2013-01-17. {{cite interview}}: Unknown parameter |program= ignored (help)
  10. Dillon, Matthew (2004-03-13). "Interview with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD" (Interview). Interviewed by Loli Eugenia. Retrieved 2013-01-17. {{cite interview}}: Unknown parameter |program= ignored (help)
  11. "DragonFlyBSD: history". DragonFlyBSD.org. 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2013-01-17.

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