Matt Dillon (software developer)
Matthew "Matt" Dillon (born July 1, 1966 ) is an American open source software developer.
At first he developed for the Amiga computer. He became known mainly by its C - compiler DICE (stands for Dillon's Integrated C Environment ). This was intended for the Motorola 68000 processors of the Amiga, but was then made to run under Linux , FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD and other operating systems. He made the source code of the compiler developed between 1992 and 1997 public. Furthermore he wrote the assembler DASM (since 1987/1988), the editor DME and the porting from UUCP to the Amiga.
After studying at the University of California, Berkeley , he was one of the three founders of the Internet provider "Best Internet Communications, Inc."
As a FreeBSD developer, he was mainly involved in the development of the VM subsystem since 1997 . In 2003 he fell out with the other FreeBSD developers because he did not agree with the design decisions.
With the Unix derivative DragonFly BSD , he further developed the BSD operating system based on FreeBSD 4.8 according to his ideas.
With HAMMER he created a highly available and robust 64-bit - file system , which is about constantly generated snapshots and checksums allowed a crashed system error-free boot up again. He is now working on HAMMER2.
He is also author of the USENET server software Diablo and dcron (stands for Dillon's cron ), a minimalist cron - daemon for Linux .
Web links
- Matt Dillon's website (Engl.)
- DragonFly BSD Project (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DICE source code release readme
- ↑ the dasm macro assembler
- ↑ DME
- ^ Matthew Dillon: Behind DragonFly BSD. July 8, 2004, accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ dillon's lightweight cron daemon
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dillon, Matt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dillon, Matthew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American open source software developer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1966 |