Review: DragonFlyBSD 1.0

A year ago, when the DragonFlyBSD project was announced, I scoffed at it. "A FreeBSD fork, and they're not even using the new technology release!" I figured it was just a disgruntled developer's one-man crusade against the programmers he didn't get along with on the FreeBSD team. Imagine my surprise when I read the announcement of the first release. Yes, DragonFlyBSD has survived long enough to gain developer support and meet several of its stratospheric goals. That doesn't mean it works properly yet, but there's a promising future ahead for this operating system.