Key facts
- Developer
- Matthew Dillon
- Os family
- Unix-like ( BSD )
- Working state
- Current
- Source model
- Open source
- Initial release
- 1.0 / 12 July 2004 ; 21 years ago ( 2004-07-12 )
- Latest release
- 6.4.2 / 9 May 2025 ; 13 months ago ( 2025-05-09 )
- Repository
- gitweb .dragonflybsd .org
- Available in
- English
- Package manager
- DPorts, pkg
- Supported platforms
- x86-64
- Kernel type
- Hybrid
- Userland
- BSD
- Default user interface
- Unix shell
- License
- BSD
- Official website
- www .dragonflybsd .org
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.dragonflybsd.org
- Image
- DragonFly BSD 6.2.1 boot loader screenshot.png
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- software version identifier
- 6.4.2
- inception
- 2004-07-12
- source code repository URL
- gitweb.dragonflybsd.org
- Commons category
- DragonFly BSD
- hashtag
- DragonFlyBSD
- publication date
- 2003-07-16
- social media followers
- 6030
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Article
DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began working on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on 16 July 2003.
Dillon started DragonFly in the belief that the techniques adopted for threading and symmetric multiprocessing in FreeBSD 5 would lead to poor performance and maintenance problems. He sought to correct these anticipated problems within the FreeBSD project. Due to conflicts with other FreeBSD developers over the implementation of his ideas, his ability to directly change the codebase was eventually revoked. Despite this, the DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD projects still work together, sharing bug fixes, driver updates, and other improvements. Dillon named the project after photographing a dragonfly in his yard, while he was still working on FreeBSD.