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/

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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project did not think highly of his ideas, which is among the reasons his ability to directly change the FreeBSD code was revoked.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.

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