Ask HN: DragonflyBSD – Do anyone use it in production?

7 points·_lbaq··3 comments

I've been watching this project for a number of years and its always interesting to see where a fork goes, Hammer and a number of other interesting choices have made this version of BSD stand out. But does anyone use it in production ? If you do, what was the primary reason ?

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Use it as a gateway, a web server (shiningsilence.com), and a music machine at home. At work as a host for a few software packages (Mediawiki, though not since a switch to Confluence, Request Tracker, and a few smaller web services) I'm using it both on hardware and as VMs.

I have never had resource problems other than filling up Hammer volumes because I didn't set the right clean rate relative to disk activity. e.g. I can give it a piddly amount of RAM and CPU and never notice.

I'm the person behind the DragonFly Digest (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/) so it's not a surprise that I would use it.

I've never used it in production, but I switched to it in the FreeBSD 6 era until FreeBSD 8 came out. I switched to it because FreeBSD 5 was a dog and couldn't stand it. I used it more recently on my x220 because they supported my Intel graphics card where as FreeBSD didn't yet. Even more recently I tried it for a client for their little-of-everything server. I didn't use it because they wanted some ZFS features (send/recv). Dragonfly got much better performance for things like NFS and their rather large MySQL databases, though.

Late to the party, if you have not yet read it, this is pretty interesting: https://bsdmag.org/siju_george/

"Why did I choose the DragonFlyBSD Operating System?"

He uses it in his company

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