Initial impressions of DFly

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai asmodai at wxs.nl
Wed Jun 30 23:41:14 PDT 2004


-On [20040630 18:42], Sascha Wildner (saw at xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>I've seen other software that tries to check for a BSD heritage OS this way.

Which isn't necessarily a guarantee.

>Personally, I think it'd be a good thing to have 'BSD' in kern.ostype 
>(something like 'DragonFlyBSD' or 'DFlyBSD') but I guess it's too late 
>for such a decision since probably a lot of stuff already depends on the 
>name being 'DragonFly'.

Yea, I already have patches outstanding with a bunch of big name projects
that depend on __DragonFly__.  Personally I prefer the name DragonFly over
DragonFly BSD, the latter being too much of a mouthful.

Of course, it's Matt's party.

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