Hello DragonFlyBSD users,

I have just seen the word DragonFlyBSD for the first time today (on
the KVM wiki).

I am a software engineer and also a dragonfly recorder (yes, I record
the numbers and species of dragonflies and damselflies in Hurst Grange
Park, Penwortham, Lancashire, England). So I could not resist taking a
look.

This last weekend, I installed FreeBSD 6.3 in a KVM virtual machine
running under Linux (x86_64). I had never used any flavour of BSD at
all before, nor had I any familiarity with KVM, so it was quite an
experience.
The reason I did this was that a user of my XSLT 2.0 processor,
Gestalt (http://gestalt.sourceforge.net) had requested a FreeBSD
binary.

Now I just HAVE to have a DragonFlyBSD binary to unify my website
(http://colina.demon.co.uk) which is all about Gestalt and
dragonflies. So I shall be giving it a go this weekend.
I

P.S. Can someone tell me the scientific name of the species pictured
in the mascot?

Welcome!

While reading your post I got an idea for future DragonFlyBSD releases.
Why not name them according to dragonfly species?
I think there should be enough till the next millenium ;-)

Regards,

   Michael

Hmm, am I the only one who is glad that we _don't_ have fancy codenames 
for releases?

Sascha

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mmm.. no

but this is >= 2^1024 times better than ubuntu release names

unless it is decided to add a silly adjective to the species

like: "Magical Medowhawk"

eek.. stomach turning over

so, no.

Hm, I don't like codenames as well, despite liking the idea :)

I can easily remember a version number, while I forget names very 
quickly, because they usually have no meaning (e.g. Intel codenames :).

But if used rarely, codenames might be a nice and funny thing. For
example if the goal is some years away as for example "Python 3000" 
(hehe, is that now a codename or a version number?). Maybe there is
a dragonfly that builds clusters? :)

Regards,

   Michael

If you use "dragonflies names" one starting with each alphabeth
letter, like big storms, then you can use names and still have a
pretty nice order, since after the "i dont know the name starting with
A" you got the "i dont know the name starting with B" but sure you
will have the "i got no idea wich version is this one, starting with J
branch starting with L, RC4".
So... 1.12... right? ;-)
Sdav




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