Matt Dillon (computer scientist)
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| Matt Dillon | |
| Born | July 1, 1966 |
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| Known for | DragonFly BSD, HAMMER |
Matt Dillon (born July 1, 1966) is a computer scientist living in Berkeley, California. He is best known for his contributions to FreeBSD and for starting the DragonFly BSD project.
Dillon studied electronic engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he first became involved with BSD in 1985. He also became known for his Amiga programming, his C compiler DICE and his work on the Linux kernel. He founded and worked at Best Internet from 1994 until 1997, contributing to FreeBSD in that time.
In 1997, Dillon gained commit access to the FreeBSD code and heavily contributed to the virtual memory subsystem, amongst other contributions.
Concerned with problems he saw in the direction FreeBSD 5.x was headed, and coupled with the fact that Dillon's access to the FreeBSD source code repository was revoked due to a falling-out with other FreeBSD developers, he started the DragonFly BSD project in 2003.
[edit] External links
- Matt Dillon home page
- KernelTrap interview, January 2002
- KernelTrap interview, August 2007
- Matt Dillon IRC interview from SlashNet
- OSNews interview (March 13, 2004)
- DragonFlyBSD home page
- bsdtalk Interview with Matthew Dillon
- bsdtalk Interview with Matthew Dillon about the 1.6 release of DragonflyBSD
- bsdtalk Interview with Matthew Dillon about the 1.8 release of DragonflyBSD
- bsdtalk Interview with Matthew Dillon about the 1.10 release of DragonflyBSD and the design of a new filesystem
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