OffMyServer Donates Intel Blade Server to DragonFly BSD
OffMyServer demonstrates their support of the DragonFly BSD project, a development fork of the FreeBSD project.
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) October 5, 2004 -- In an effort to show the DragonFly
BSD project some support, OffMyServer has donated an Intel blade server to the
open source operating system group. The blade system will be used for testing
and improving network-related applications both in-kernel and in userland.
"We think that the DragonFly BSD project is definitely a worthwhile
cause," states Matt Olander, CTO of OffMyServer. "There are sometimes many ways
to perform the same task and forking is a common method to explore those
different ways. In addition to the blade server, we are working on getting the
DragonFly BSD team a Quad Xeon system for testing SMP builds as well."
DragonFly BSD is a promising fork of the popular FreeBSD operating
system that uses light weight threads and message passing for dealing with
multi-processing issues. DragonFly BSD 1.0 was released on July 12th, 2004, one
year after forking from the FreeBSD project.
"By providing this
equipment for the DragonFly BSD project, we are encouraging the research and
development of operating systems principles in an open forum," comments Mike
Lauth, CEO of OffMyServer. "This results in a better product for everyone."
The DragonFly BSD project was started by Matthew Dillon, who is known
for creating the DICE C compiler on the Amiga, and later co-founding BEST
Internet in San Francisco. Dillon has also contributed code to the FreeBSD
project for subsystems such as VM and NFS. Many individuals have stepped up to
contribute various pieces of code, documentation, ideas, and feedback to the
DragonFly project. Since the first release, it has been downloaded thousands of
times.
"These systems will help us immensely with reaching our goals for
DragonFly BSD," says Devon O'Dell, DragonFly BSD evangelist and code
contributor. "The blade cluster will allow us to develop, test, and benchmark
network applications; the SMP Xeon machine will help out those developers who do
not have access to machines with multiple processors. Since a lot of our work is
with making our OS safe for SMP systems, this will certainly increase our
productivity."
About DragonFly BSD
DragonFly is an operating system
and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS
series. DragonFly BSD is based on UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly is a fork
giving the BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely new direction from the
one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series.
For more information:
Vist the
website: http://www.dragonflybsd.org
About OffMyServer,
Inc.
OffMyServer, a company nestled in the infamous Golden Triangle of
Silicon Valley, provides FreeBSD-based Internet infrastructure grade rackmount
servers, security appliances, and managed FreeBSD hosting to a global market.
The OffMyServer management team consists of former executives and employees from
BSDi and iXsystems.
For more information:
Vist the website: http://www.offmyserver.com
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