![]() We started with SGI platforms but later switched to BSDi, and eventually to FreeBSD. In the 1990s, I leveraged my experience to start (along with three other founders) one of the first real Internet ISPs in the South Bay area (California), called BEST Internet. And for the Amiga, I contributed lots of really useful programs like DME (an editor) and DMouse (a mouse accelerator), and a few other things. Many young programmers thanked me, even decades later, for being able to mess around with that source code. I sold that back in the 1980s as shareware, but I also included the full and complete sources to the whole thing. DICE is a full 68000 compiler – editor, preprocessor, C compiler, assembler, and linker – the whole thing. Matthew Dillon: In the early days (and now I'm talking about the 1980s), open source was far more personal, and individuals could put together and sell wonderful programs via shareware, as well as give away code. Linux Magazine: Tell us a bit about how you became involved in BSD. Dillon offers an expert's view of not only BSD but of Linux and open source as well. Matthew Dillon, the founder of DragonFly BSD, learned his craft in AmigaOS and remains active today in the Dragonfly project. DragonFly BSD has a history of rethinking Unix-like subsystems and processes in a never-ending effort to make them more efficient. Among the many BSDs, one of the most interesting is DragonFly BSD (featured on this month's DVD). It's easy to forget that Linux is only one member of a whole family of Unix-like systems, especially the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). ![]()
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