Our Next MeetingsThe next meeting will be held at Peter's Cafe in Millbrae. The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 8thth. at 7:00pm.Our Topic DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series. These operating systems belong in the same class as Linux in that they are based on UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly is a fork in the path, so to speak, giving the BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely new direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series. Our speakers is: Matt Dillon is known for creating the DICE C compiler on the Amiga, and later cofounding BEST Internet in San Francisco. A lifelong adherent to open standards and open source technology development, Matthew Dillon has been closely involved with the development of the FreeBSD operating system over the past decade. Recent releases of FreeBSD have incorporated Matt's work in the areas of the VM system (virtual memory), security, compression algorithms and others. Matt has written several relational databases in the past 10 years. In 1994, Matt co-founded Best Internet, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other ISPs not utilizing open source standards could not adapt their technology quickly enough to support the new business processes their rapid growth suddenly required. Best was purchased by Verio and eventually acquired by NTT DoCoMo, Japan. Matt is the founder of the DragonFly BSD project. Matt is also the principal code contributor to DragonFly, and supports the website and other online resources for this project. He has been working on or completed DragonFly projects such as variant symlinks, MPIPE, the slab allocator, the namecache, LWKT, dfports, the 'live CD', AMD64 work, and much more, including coordination on projects other contributors have submitted.
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