We're running FreeBSD at work on our main mail server, which is now
crashing 2 times per day. I need to find a new solution soon, or I
could risk losing my job which would really stink.
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In computing, the DragonFly BSD operating system is a fork of FreeBSD.
Matt Dillon, a long-time FreeBSD and Amiga developer, started work on
DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists
on 16 July 2003.
Dillon started DragonFly in the belief that the methods and techniques
being adopted for threading and SMP in FreeBSD 5 would lead to a poorly
performing system that would be very difficult to maintain. He sought to
correct these suspected problems within the FreeBSD project. Others in
the project did not think highly of his ideas, which is among the
reasons his ability to directly change the FreeBSD code was revoked.
Despite this, the DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD projects still work together
contributing bug fixes, driver updates and other system improvements to
each other.
Intended to be "the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series",
DragonFly is being developed in an entirely different direction from
FreeBSD 5, including a new Light Weight Kernel Threads implementation
and a light weight ports/messaging system. Many concepts planned for
DragonFly were inspired by the AmigaOS.
