[BSDCert] DragonFly - Why?

[Andrew Hodgson]

 >On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
 >
 >> Hello,
 >>
 >> Sorry for the question out of the blue, but I'm curious to know why 
 >> DragonFly is required knowledge for the BSDA. I've got a good few 
 >> years under my belt with Free and OpenBSD, and wouldn't object to 
 >> perusing NetBSD for the exam, but isn't DragonFly still a 
 >long way away from production?
 >> And, isn't it sufficiently different from other, more established 
 >> flavours to significantly affect the result of an exam if a 
 >candidate 
 >> *doesn't* know about it?
 >>
 >> I'm not imagining I can change anything at this late stage, 
 >I'm just 
 >> curious to know!
 >
 >
 >If you carefully review the exam objectives for the BSDA, 
 >you'll find very little DragonflyBSD differences--in fact, 
 >you'll see a lot of its FreeBSD heritage as well as the 
 >upcoming pkgsrc inherited from NetBSD. IIRC, there was only 
 >one entry in the Appendix A chart that applied uniquely to 
 >DragonflyBSD.

That settles it then!

Thanks, I'm looking forward to taking the exam.

Andrew