| 1 | ## Ongoing DragonFly News |
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| 3 | ### 2.4.1 Released, 01-Oct-2009! |
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| 5 | The [[DragonFly 2.4.1 release|release24]] is now available! With tons of new features and improvements. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ### Summer of Code 2009 participation |
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| 9 | DragonFly participated in Google's [Summer of Code](http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/dragonflybsd) program for 2009. Sample code from the completed student projects is available [from Google's repository](http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/dragonflybsd). |
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| 12 | More news from the <a href="http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/">DragonFly Digest</a> |
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| 18 | ## What is DragonFly BSD? |
| 19 | |
| 20 | DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating system as BSD and Linux |
| 21 | and is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly gives the BSD |
| 22 | base an opportunity to grow in an entirely different direction from the one |
| 23 | taken in the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD series. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | The DragonFly project's |
| 26 | ultimate goal is to provide native clustering support in the kernel. |
| 27 | This involves the creation of a sophisticated cache management |
| 28 | framework for filesystem namespaces, file spaces, and VM spaces, which |
| 29 | allows heavily interactive programs to run across multiple machines with |
| 30 | cache coherency fully guaranteed in all respects. This also involves being |
| 31 | able to chop up resources, including the cpu by way of a controlled VM |
| 32 | context, for safe assignment to unsecured third-party clusters over the |
| 33 | internet (though the security of such clusters itself might be in doubt, |
| 34 | the first and most important thing is for systems donating resources to not |
| 35 | be made vulnerable through their donation). |
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| 37 | For more information, visit the [[History|history]] page. |