<div dir="ltr">As a person who's looking for a new "home" in an open source operating system and think that that may be DragonFly, please allow me to chime in here by trying to articulate the things that I like about the project. Of course these are only my impressions and opinions.<div>
<br></div><div>I like that it's forward thinking; a bit of fresh air in a largely stagnant landscape.</div><div>I like that there seems to be a focus on innovation without sacrificing simplicity.</div><div>I like that it does not show the "Me, too!" obsessions of the "Yet Another Linux" Distributions.</div>
<div>I like that the community seems more accessible and less ego-driven than other projects.</div><div>I particularly like that it seems to be more focused on the hacker rather than any particular application domain.<br>
<div><br></div><div>I personally don't care for the idea of focusing on one architecture, because having more is often a forcing function to keep the code tidy and portable and avoid unnecessary hardware dependencies. But if that's the case, make it multiple actively supported and developed architectures; maybe some sort of ARM or MIPS based port would be both good and very practical? Putting a lot of effort into i386 for more than a few more years is going to be a dead end and feels like misplacing resources that could be better applied towards pushing the system forward in other dimensions. So I'm for the idea of setting a sunset date for i386, for what it's worth (which is approximately nothing :-)).</div>
<div><br></div><div style> - Dan C.</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div>
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