Matt Dillon is a computer scientist, born July 1, 1966 in the Bay Area and living in Berkeley, California. He is best known for his contributions to FreeBSD and for starting the DragonFly BSD project. Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... USGS satellite photo of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through the 386BSD and 4. ... DragonFly BSD is a free, Unix-like operating system which was forked from FreeBSD 4. ...

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. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... The original Amiga 1000 (1985) with various peripherals The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. ... The Linux kernel is a Unix-like operating system kernel. ... In computer science, the kernel is the fundamental part of an operating system. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through the 386BSD and 4. ...

In 1997, Dillon gained commit access to the FreeBSD code and majorly contributed to the virtual memory subsystem, amongst other work. In the context of computer science and data management, commit refers to the idea of making permanent a set of tentative changes, such as at the end of a transaction. ... How virtual memory maps to physical memory Virtual memory is an addressing scheme implemented in hardware and software that allows non-contiguous memory to be addressed as if it were contiguous. ...

Concerned with problems he saw in the direction FreeBSD 5.x was headed, he started the DragonFly BSD project in 2003. DragonFly BSD is a free, Unix-like operating system which was forked from FreeBSD 4. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Matt Dillon home page
• KernelTrap interview
• Matt Dillon IRC interview from SlashNet
• OSNews interview (March 13, 2004)
• DragonFlyBSD home page