From 15ab7fd290ec711b59903d78d34b57d677ac87b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sjg Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:07:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] - duplicate "what is" --- index.mdwn | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index b9b6a1ae..b5559174 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ The DragonFly Digest is als ## What is DragonFly BSD? -What is DragonFly BSD? - At a fundamental level, DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems as other BSD-derived systems and Linux. It is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs and shares ancestor code with other BSD operating systems. DragonFly is providing an opportunity for the BSD base to grow in an entirely different direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD series. DragonFly includes many useful features that differentiate it from other operating systems in the same class, some of these features are: HAMMER, a modern high performance filesystem with historical access properties. Virtual kernel's, the ability to run a full-blown kernel as a user process for the purpose of managing resources, security or kernel development and debugging. The token synchronization mechanism is inherently deadlock-free, decreases complexity and cross-subsystem pollution, this makes the kernel more maintainable as well as more reliable and performant. Swapcache allows you to make use of swap space to cache filesystem data and meta-data. Paired with a solid state disk device, this feature enables both server and workstation workloads to perform as if they have access to significantly more RAM. Some other features that make DragonFly an administrative pleasure are Variant symlinks that are resolved at runtime based on user-specific or system-wide variables. Serial device numbering through devfs greatly simplifies storage management. A scalable and fast TMPFS implementation that is made even more viable by swapcache. The NULLFS implementation in DragonFly allows for arbitrary mount points and has virtually no overhead. A major crux of any open source operating system is third party applications. DragonFly leverages the pkgsrc system to provide thousands of applications in source and binary forms. These features and the host of other niceties that DragonFly provides make it an extremely modern, useful, configurable and friendly UNIX-like operating system. -- 2.41.0