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By Babak Farrokhi, July 13, 2004 10:55 pm

I have just installed DragonFlyBSD 1.0 on my home pc (under a virtual machine).

It looks very neat. Installer looks very good and is very easy while it is very configurable. Boot process is much like FBSD 5.x, except that elf deamon ASCII art has changed to DragonFly mascot. syslogd is disabled by default, while nfs client is enabled. Default perl interpreter is version 5.005 ( I expected it to be 5.6 ). And the installer CD does not include the source code. You have to cvsup it by yourself.

Since it is installed in a virtual machine (MS Virtual PC 2004, because I had no VMware installed), I can not perform real world tests. I will install it on a standalone machine and will post my observations as soon as I test it.

Many thanks to DragonFly team for their excellent job.

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By Babak Farrokhi, September 14, 2003 5:43 pm

eWeek article:

Why turn to a BSD base as the basis for a commercial open Unix? BSD has been around, it’s been proven, it’s stable and has a broad groundswell of development. BSD-based Unix systems have been around for multiple decades now. There’s sufficient documentation, standardization and educational resources to promote their development. BSD systems have been implemented on such a wide range of hardware platforms and operating environments that their value is accepted almost without question.

Read the whole article: eWeek: Why a SCO Win Could Be Good for Unix