[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD or DragonFly

[Okan Demirmen]

On Mon 2005.11.07 at 09:52 -0500, Dan Casey wrote:
> I've been a big FreeBSD fan ever since I started using it (version 4.3
> was the latest out at the time).  To be completely honest I haven't been
> around BSD for a while now because my new job uses Linux.  In the BSD
> world, I haven't strayed away from FreeBSD at all.  Now, Ive been
> hearing a lot about this DragonFly BSD, which from what I've been told
> is supposed to continue on the 4x series of FreeBSD?  Doesn't look like
> FreeBSD has discontinued it yet. Holy crap, I just looked at the web
> page (which is very different now), to see that FBSD 6 has hit
> production!!  I didn't even know it was an idea yet lol.
> 
> Anyway it looks like I got more reading to do then I thought...  Long
> story short,  I want to add a few servers to my own business (currently
> using 1 freebsd5.1).
> What are some reasons that one might use DragonFly instead of Free?  Im
> doing virtual hosting, so creating virtual environments/jails is going
> to be a big consideration.  Or I may even go w/ openbsd... who knows... 
> Just wanted to see if anyone had any good/bad info on this dragonfly thing.
> 
> Sorry for the rambling.

not at all.

so, i strongly believe in the right tool for the job...however, you've
come back at a very active time. openbsd 3.8 just came out, netbsd 2.1 came
out a day after that, and freebsd 6.0 somewhere in between. lots of new
stuff to play with and test...i say try 'em all out...as well as
dragonfly.

cheers.