diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml index 351a527314..6890b84310 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml @@ -172,9 +172,11 @@ and the first version of FreeBSD was not ready until the end of the year. In the meantime, the code base had diverged sufficiently to make it difficult to merge. In addition, the projects had different - aims, as we will see below. In 1996, a further project, - OpenBSD, split off from - NetBSD. + aims, as we will see below. In 1996, + OpenBSD split off from + NetBSD, and in 2003, + DragonFlyBSD split + of from FreeBSD. @@ -240,7 +242,8 @@ distributions, of course). In the following section, we will look at BSD and compare it to Linux. The description applies most closely to FreeBSD, which accounts for an estimated 80% of the BSD installations, - but the differences from NetBSD and OpenBSD are small. + but the differences from NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD are small. + Who owns BSD? @@ -348,7 +351,7 @@ BSD releases - Each BSD project provides the system in three different + FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD provides the system in three different releases. As with Linux, releases are assigned a number such as 1.4.1 or 3.5. In addition, the version number has a suffix indicating its purpose: @@ -402,7 +405,7 @@ What versions of BSD are available? In contrast to the numerous Linux distributions, there are only - three open source BSDs. Each BSD project maintains its own source + four major open source BSDs. Each BSD project maintains its own source tree and its own kernel. In practice, though, there appear to be fewer divergences between the userland code of the projects than there is in Linux. @@ -437,6 +440,14 @@ exchanges and US Government departments. Like NetBSD, it runs on a number of platforms. + + + DragonFlyBSD aims for high performance and scalability under + everything from a single-node UP system to a massively clustered system. + DragonFlyBSD has several long-range technical goals, but focus lies on + providing a SMP-capable infrastructure that is easy to understand, + maintain and develop for. + There are also two additional BSD &unix; operating systems which are not