Matt Dillon (computer scientist) - Definition and Overview

Matt Dillon is a computer scientist, born 1967 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.

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 and his work on the Linux kernel. He founded and worked at BEST Internet from 1994 until 1997, contributing to FreeBSD in that time.

In 1997, Dillon gained commit access to the FreeBSD code and rewrote the virtual memory subsystem, amongst other work.

Concerned with problems he saw in the direction FreeBSD 5.x was headed, he started the DragonFly BSD project in 2003.

External links

• Matt Dillon home page (http://apollo.backplane.com/)
• KernelTrap interview (http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/8)
• Matt Dillon IRC interview (http://www.slashnet.org/forums/DragonflyBSD-20031009.html) from SlashNet (http://www.slashnet.org/)
• OSNews interview (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6338) (March 13, 2004)
• DragonFly BSD home page (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/)