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by 0x457 1263 days ago
Oh, I know. I suffered the entire way to 8.0. Until 5.2 it was completely unusable. I also remember unplugging or plugging USB device would often lead to kernel panic until 9.0 IIRC.

I agree that he was correct at the time. Likewise, I do wish that split never happened, though.
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alberth 1263 days ago
> * I do wish that split never happened*

I too wish the split hadn’t happened, and for Matt’s ideas to have landed in FreeBSD.

Dragonfly today is remarkable, still competing head to head with FreeBSD 15 years later but with a development team literally 1/50th the size.

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loeg 1263 days ago
FreeBSD doesn’t have 50 active core developers so it’s hard to imagine how Dragonfly could be 1/50th the size.
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alberth 1263 days ago
FreeBSD (402)

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributors/#staff-com...

vs.

DragonflyBSD (67)

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/team/

So, correct. Not 1/50th.

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loeg 1263 days ago
The majority of names on the FreeBSD list are relatively inactive.
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