Venting my frustration with FreeBSD

Jason C. Wells jcw at highperformance.net
Tue Dec 19 07:33:22 PST 2006


Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-12-11 12:00, "Jason C. Wells" <jcw at highperformance.net> wrote:
>   
>> soralx at cydem.org wrote:
>>     
>>> The question is, how big an overhaul FreeBSD needs for a jump start
>>> to becoming of interest in the areas where performance & scalability
>>> matter?
>>>       
>>  
>> Easy!  A dragonfly sized overhaul. :)
>>     
> Maybe, or maybe not.
>
> Can we keep the inflammatory material down a bit, please?
I was hardly being inflammatory.  Cutesy perhaps, but not inflammatory.  
DragonflyBSDs stated objectives are pretty much what the OP was talking 
about.  If ever get into multi/parallel computing I'll have a good 
reason to try it.  The OP is welcome to try it too.  If he didn't know 
about Dragonfly, let's tell him.

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/index.shtml

They don't claim to be ready for prime time just yet.  It looks like 
there getting there.

Later,
Jason


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