DragonFlyBSD is one of several Unix-like operating systems stemming from the BSD4.4-lite release of the Berkeley Software Distributions.
Originally derived from FreeBSD 4.8, on
July 16, 2003, DragonFlyBSD has imported many of the FreeBSD
5 tree'
s useful developments, mostly drivers and bug fixes.
DragonFlyBSD is focused at becoming highly scalable and is rewriting much of how the operating system uses it'
s processors. It is currently focused on the ix86 platform, but is keeping as open as possible to the AMD64, macppc, sparc and sparc64 architectures.
DragonFlyBSD'
s mascot is
fred, a bright red dragonfly with his own plush dolls.
Currently working towards the 1.0 release, DragonFlyBSD is still not completely stable.
Using FreeBSD as the base Matt Dillon, a prominent Amiga,
Linux and FreeBSD programmer, started DragonFlyBSD when a difference of
opinion in how FreeBSD 5 should be developed arose, resulting in what some are calling the fourth major open source BSD.