Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Jan Lentfer
Samuel J. Greear schrieb: 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,

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :On Monday 20 September 2010 16:51:47 Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: :> Why _no one_ answered my question concerning DF BSD contained in my :> post: :> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2010-07/msg00091.html : :I don't know why no one answered, but I didn't answer because I don't kno

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these : : :http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=18120%20600038493&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB : :-DR I'm a bit leery of PCIe based SSDs. They have a ton of bandwidth but they are also going to be driver-dependent and

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-22 Thread David Rhodus
On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these : http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=18120%20600038493&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB -DR

pkgsrc package builds for 2.8

2010-09-22 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
The next release of pkgsrc, 2010Q3, is due out Oct. 1st. DragonFly 2.8 is going to be out soon after. I stopped the automatic builds of pkgsrc in the various places I'm building it, as I don't think there's going to be any changes to really catch at this point. So, I expect to have pkgsrc-2010Q3

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Clark
I enjoyed working with pre Sys-V SunOS. I blame taking the C compiler out of the distro, the giving in to peer pressure to move to Sys-V, and the decade lost in the pipe dream of replacing Windows with platform-independent Java for the turning of Sun Microsystems into an overpriced chair

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Samuel J. Greear 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? Thanks all for your responses, this has been very enlightening to me and I

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Today I think that the SSI goal has become less important. :The "cluster hype" has diminished and been partially :replaced by the "cloud hype". Today, it is extremely :important to have excellent SMP scalability. Multi-core :systems are common, my desktop at home is a 6-core AMD :Phenom II X6 wh

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Samuel J. Greear 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? First of all, I'm a FreeBSD user (since 2.0.5), and I'm not using DragonFly