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    DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early...
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  • 1995. Other notable derivatives include DragonFly BSD, which was forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Most of the current BSD operating systems are open source and...
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    Berkeley. The term "BSD" commonly refers to its open-source descendants, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. BSD was initially called...
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  • separate environments. Version 4.8 was forked by Matt Dillon to create DragonFly BSD. After almost three years of development, the first 5.0-RELEASE in January...
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  • and was included in the Android 7.0 release. DragonFly BSD has an implementation of ASLR based upon OpenBSD's model, added in 2010. It is off by default...
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    and in their developer documentation. Breaking with most other BSD systems, DragonFly BSD refers to 64-bit architecture as "x86_64". Haiku refers to 64-bit...
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  • early 2000s[update], there are four major BSD operating systems–FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD, and an increasing number of other OSs forked...
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  • partitions, virtual environments (VEs), virtual kernels (DragonFly BSD), and jails (FreeBSD jail and chroot). Such instances may look like real computers...
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    PlayStation 4 game consoles. The other BSD systems (OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD) also contain a large amount of FreeBSD code, and vice-versa.[citation...
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    based on OpenBSD 3.8 is currently maintained by Karol Pasternak and can be downloaded from the project's web site. Gentoo/DragonFlyBSD is a currently[when...
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  • implementation from NetBSD for some time, but it was removed in 2014 due lack of maintainership and code rot. DragonFly BSD has had NetBSD's Bluetooth implementation...
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    Matthew Dillon (category DragonFly BSD)
    engineer known for Amiga software, contributions to FreeBSD and for starting and leading the DragonFly BSD project since 2003. Dillon studied electronic engineering...
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    website for the Ralink and Realtek cards Kerneltrap for the list of OpenBSD drivers The OpenSolaris website for the list of OpenSolaris and Solaris drivers...
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  • Vkernel (category DragonFly BSD)
    compartmentalisation of system resources. It is used by DragonFly BSD in its vkernel implementation since DragonFly 1.7, having been first revealed in September 2006...
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  • pthread_setaffinity_np(3) – NetBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD Library Functions Manual psrset(8) – NetBSD System Manager's Manual cpuset(1) – FreeBSD General Commands...
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    versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as certain ports of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD and macOS for compatibility reasons. Windows 2000 and its...
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  • clustered DragonFly BSD filesystem, production-ready since DragonFly 2.2 (2009) HAMMER2 — recommended as the default root filesystem in DragonFly since 5...
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  • being supported on a number of FreeBSD descendants, including DragonFly BSD, to this day. The need for the FreeBSD jails came from a small shared-environment...
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    Sysctl (category DragonFly BSD)
    sysctl(2) in OpenBSD sysctl(3) in FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD sysctl(7) in NetBSD sysctl(8) in *BSD sysctl(9) in FreeBSD, DragonFly and NetBSD sysctl(8) – Linux...
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    copy-on-write file system for Linux HAMMER—a high-availability file system for DragonFly BSD Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL)—NetApp's proprietary file layout "zfs-2...
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  • "OpenBSD: Platforms". OpenBSD. 9 May 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2019. "Platforms Supported by NetBSD". NetBSD.org. Retrieved 9 December 2016. DragonFly Frequently...
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  • the implementations of traceroute shipped with Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and macOS include an option to use ICMP Echo Request packets...
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  • (Successor to SunOS 4.x; based on SVR4 instead of BSD) Windows 3.1 1993 IBM 4690 Operating System FreeBSD NetBSD Novell NetWare 4 Newton OS Nucleus RTOS Open...
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    Bluetooth stack was ported to OpenBSD as well, however OpenBSD later removed it as unmaintained. DragonFly BSD has had NetBSD's Bluetooth implementation since...
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  • HAMMER (file system) (category DragonFly BSD)
    high-availability 64-bit file system developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFly BSD using B+ trees. Its major features include infinite NFS-exportable snapshots...
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  • Property list (category DragonFly BSD)
    for system monitoring. NetBSD's proplib library has also been ported to DragonFly in 2010, and is available since DragonFly BSD#2.8. Facebook's open-source...
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  • There are also a wide variety of minor BSD operating systems, many of which can be found at comparison of BSD operating systems. The tables specifically...
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  • MidnightBSD, another fork of FreeBSD DragonFly BSD, a fork of FreeBSD to follow an alternative design, particularly related to SMP. NextBSD, new BSD distribution...
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  • and other features. In 4.4BSD and BSD Unix systems derived from it, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFlyBSD, the implementation of UFS1 and UFS2...
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  • Light Weight Kernel Threads (category DragonFly BSD)
    DragonFly BSD in particular. LWKTs differ from normal kernel threads in that they can preempt normal kernel threads. According to Matt Dillon, DragonFlyBSD...
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