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Matthew Dillon, the Glossary

Matthew Dillon (born 1966) is an American software engineer known for Amiga software, contributions to FreeBSD and for starting and leading the DragonFly BSD project since 2003.^[1]

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;login: is a long-running technical journal published by the USENIX Association, focusing on the UNIX operating system and system administration in general.

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Addison-Wesley

Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature.

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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that designs, develops and sells computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.

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Amiga

Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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B-tree

In computer science, a B-tree is a self-balancing tree data structure that maintains sorted data and allows searches, sequential access, insertions, and deletions in logarithmic time.

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Berkeley Software Distribution

The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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BSD/OS

BSD/OS (originally called BSD/386 and sometimes known as BSDi) is a discontinued proprietary version of the BSD operating system developed by Berkeley Software Design, Inc.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.

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Commit (data management)

In computer science and data management, a commit is the making of a set of tentative changes permanent, marking the end of a transaction and providing Durability to ACID transactions.

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Computer science

Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.

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Concurrency (computer science)

In computer science, concurrency is the ability of different parts or units of a program, algorithm, or problem to be executed out-of-order or in partial order, without affecting the outcome.

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DragonFly BSD

DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8.

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Electronic engineering

Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flow.

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Erratum

An erratum or corrigendum (errata, corrigenda) (comes from errata corrige) is a correction of a published text.

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File system

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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HAMMER (file system)

HAMMER is a high-availability 64-bit file system developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFly BSD using B+ trees. Matthew Dillon and HAMMER (file system) are DragonFly BSD.

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HAMMER2

HAMMER2 is a successor to the HAMMER filesystem, redesigned from the ground up to support enhanced clustering. Matthew Dillon and HAMMER2 are DragonFly BSD.

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Intel Core

Intel Core is a line of multi-core (with the exception of Core Solo and Core 2 Solo) central processing units (CPUs) for midrange, embedded, workstation, high-end and enthusiast computer markets marketed by Intel Corporation.

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Intel Core 2

Intel Core 2 is a processor family encompassing a range of Intel's mainstream 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the Core microarchitecture.

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KernelTrap

KernelTrap was a computing news website which covered topics related to the development of free and open source operating system kernels, and especially, the Linux kernel.

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Light Weight Kernel Threads

Light Weight Kernel Threads (LWKT) is a computer science term and from DragonFly BSD in particular. Matthew Dillon and Light Weight Kernel Threads are DragonFly BSD.

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Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.

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LISA (organization)

LISA is the USENIX special interest group for system administrators.

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LWN.net

LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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Meltdown (security vulnerability)

Meltdown is one of the two original transient execution CPU vulnerabilities (the other being Spectre).

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O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.

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OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a security-focused, free and open-source, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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OS-level virtualization

OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, called containers (LXC, Solaris containers, AIX WPARs, HP-UX SRP Containers, Docker, Podman), zones (Solaris containers), virtual private servers (OpenVZ), partitions, virtual environments (VEs), virtual kernels (DragonFly BSD), or jails (FreeBSD jail or chroot jail).

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Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology. Matthew Dillon and Paul Vixie are free software programmers.

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Pearson Education

Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Software engineering

Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development.

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Symmetric multiprocessing

Symmetric multiprocessing or shared-memory multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes.

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The Register

The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.

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Theo de Raadt

Theo de Raadt (born May 19, 1968) is a South African-born software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Matthew Dillon and Theo de Raadt are free software programmers and kernel programmers.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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USENIX

USENIX is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization based in Berkeley, California and founded in 1975 that supports advanced computing systems, operating system (OS), and computer networking research.

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User space and kernel space

A modern computer operating system usually uses virtual memory to provide separate address spaces, or separate regions of a single address space, called user space and kernel space.

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Verio

Verio is a global web hosting provider headquartered in the United States.

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Virtual memory

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".

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Vkernel

A virtual kernel architecture (vkernel) is an operating system virtualisation paradigm where kernel code can be compiled to run in the user space, for example, to ease debugging of various kernel-level components, in addition to general-purpose virtualisation and compartmentalisation of system resources. Matthew Dillon and Vkernel are DragonFly BSD.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Dillon

Also known as DICE (compiler), Matt Dillon (computer scientist), Matthew Dillon (computer scientist).

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See also

Amiga people

BSD people

DragonFly BSD

Engineers from San Francisco

FreeBSD people

Kernel programmers

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