DragonFly BSD

The DragonFly BSD operating system is a fork of the main FreeBSD 4.x operating system.It was produced by Matt Dillon, who felt the development direction (particularly threading and SMP choices) of FreeBSD 5 would result in bad performance. DragonFly BSD is being developed with a different threading model and messaging system from those used in FreeBSD 5. Many of the concepts of DragonFly BSD have been inspired by functionality in AmigaOS. Interestingly, despite the split from the FreeBSD roots, the groups are sharing bug fixes and device drivers.

DragonFly BSD is provided as a Live CD and will boot into a fully functional DragonFly BSD system. Unlike pure Live CD products, however, it can also install DragonFly BSD. More information is available on the DragonFly BSD project page.