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Anyone who thinks of a BSD-based operating system will immediately think of one of the three well-known BSD variants, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD. But there are also several other BSD variants available, such as PC-BSD and DragonFly BSD. The latter is a fork of FreeBSD 4.8 that was released around June 2003 because DragonFly BSD project leader Matthew Dillon disagree was with the chosen development strategy and focus areas for FreeBSD 5. For an overview of his goals for DragonFly BSD, see this page completely pierce. DragonFly BSD 1.6.1 has recently been released to fix an annoying bug. The announcement looks like this:

Due to the solving of a nasty locking problem, 1.6.1 is out.

Modified files: sys/kern kern_lockf.c
Log:
Get rid of a bogus check that cut the blocked-lock wakeup code a little too short, causing sendmail and postfix to sometimes block indefinitely.

Version number 1.6.1
Website DragonFly BSD Digest
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License type Prerequisites (GNU/BSD/etc.)
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