Just looked up DragonFly BSD. Prior I just heard it was doing concurrency or something differently. Looking at the details... damn, I'm impressed. It's still a UNIX architecture with the good and bad that comes from that. Yet, they're applying rather than ignoring many good engineering choices for dealing with various UNIX problems such as concurrency, integration, OS-level faults, & kernel debugging. The HAMMER filesystem is also a nice development given it's not GPL or Oracle-related (right?). A BSD alternative to ZFS is by itself worth a whole project.
So yeah, there's still hope for UNIX. Looks like that hope goes two ways:
1. UNIX variants like DragonFly that intentionally break things or get rid of crud to better themselves over time.
2. People on such projects who stumble onto superior architectures while looking for improvements and start building a better non-UNIX.
So yeah, there's still hope for UNIX. Looks like that hope goes two ways:
1. UNIX variants like DragonFly that intentionally break things or get rid of crud to better themselves over time.
2. People on such projects who stumble onto superior architectures while looking for improvements and start building a better non-UNIX.
I'll keep checking up on it to see what happens.