debdrup

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by debdrup 9y ago
As far as I can see (and comparing with the output on the github page), the only thing missing from dmesg is the amount of cache and byte order within the first 20 or so lines. One depends on CPU purchase, the other depends on the ISA. Eith
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by debdrup 9y ago
I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer, so maybe that's why it seems like the Haskell solution is more complicated to me - but can someone explain why a supposed improvement for something is more complicated, and involves a bunch of stu
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by debdrup 9y ago
This is neat and all, but I'm not sure I understand how it's better than 'less /var/run/dmesg.boot'? Which is not to say that this doesn't have any merit, I just don't understand it.
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by debdrup 9y ago
Ultimately, even if you ignore FreeBSDs and OpenBSDs history of cooperation (or the lack thereof, either of which I won't get into), the projects have different values that don't necessarily mix - so I'm not sure it's po
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by debdrup 9y ago
May I suggest w3m-img, tmux and uxrvt compiled with mouse support?
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by debdrup 9y ago
Hotmail and Windows Update used to be hosted on FreeBSD, yes.
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by debdrup 9y ago
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo is a project that attempts to document Unix from its very first line all the way up to FreeBSDs HEAD (at least whenever it's imported, which might only be once a yea
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by debdrup 9y ago
My guess would be that it's because jails are exclusive to FreeBSD, and not that many people (compared to Linux, that is) run FreeBSD. Jails were also devised as a tool for the sysadmins toolbox, whereas docker is a tool for developers
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by debdrup 9y ago
Docker runs on FreeBSD too, and it'll hopefully run even better in the future once the results from https://wiki.freebsd.org/DockerHackDay2017 come in. FreeBSD jails can't just be easily ported to any platform, as