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by emaste 12y ago
This is an updated version of the report originally discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7956796 Some memory debugging options were inadvertently left enabled in the original investigation. This report covers
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by emaste 12y ago
Thank you - this is why we put the effort into producing these reports. If they were not valuable to our users I'm sure all involved would be happy to avoid the extra work!
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by emaste 12y ago
The DragonFly benchmark results included in the reference at the end of this document include DragonFly, FreeBSD 10.0, Centos and Debian. In short, the other operating systems they benchmarked don't display the substantial scalability
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by emaste 12y ago
LLDB does JIT your expression via Clang, and then either interprets it locally or executes it in the target, and you can execute arbitrary commands - for example: (lldb) expr for (int i=1; i<5; i++) { printf("%d\n", i * i);
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by emaste 13y ago
No, none of the description in this guide applies to UEFI. The UEFI firmware loads its bootloader as a PE binary from a FAT filesystem, not a binary blob from sector 0, and the CPU is already in 32- or 64-bit mode. The interface for calli
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by emaste 13y ago
The typo was fixed a little while later: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/ssl/Mak...
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by emaste 13y ago
> The author has just taken Foo and made it proprietary. No, they have made Foobar, a proprietary derivative of Foo. This does not change the license of Foo or cause it to cease to exist.
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That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp(erlang-factory.com)
1 points by emaste 13y ago|0 comments
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by emaste 13y ago
Yes, here's a quote from the FreeBSD Foundation's July 2013 newsletter: At WhatsApp we leverage FreeBSD and Erlang to provide industry record uptime. The ability to scale linearly on commodity hardware has allowed WhatsApp
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Microsoft changes policy on third-party signing of EFI code(itwire.com)
2 points by emaste 13y ago|0 comments
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by emaste 13y ago
Like most of the articles using the FreeBSD developer summit wiki as a source, this one is highly misleading. FreeBSD will not pass these hardware random generators directly to the user via /dev/random, but will instead use them a
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by emaste 13y ago
Pkgng is indeed the default in FreeBSD 10. That page is a useful collection of notes on changes in the base system, but isn't an official changelog of the release engineering team.
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Sony's new PlayStation 4 and open-source FreeBSD: THE TRUTH(theregister.co.uk)
5 points by emaste 13y ago|1 comments
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by emaste 13y ago
The Foundation also sponsored work on unmapped block I/O which significantly improves performance on certain workloads, Intel VT-d (IOMMU) support, Capsicum sandboxing infrastructure, multi-threaded pagedaemon, UEFI infrastructure, and
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FreeBSD and Commercial Workloads: Managed Services at NYI(freebsdfoundation.org)
2 points by emaste 13y ago|0 comments
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by emaste 13y ago
The need for binary updates is certainly understandable, and was a reasonably common complaint. Binary updates have now largely become a "solved problem" on FreeBSD, through freebsd-update (ca. 2007, for the base system) and pkgn
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by emaste 13y ago
I'll agree with you that choosing individual software packages can be a daunting task for someone who's just looking to set up a single laptop or desktop as an end user. In the FreeBSD world the PC-BSD project ( http://w
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by emaste 13y ago
The CDDL is a file-scope weak copyleft license, and is (broadly) less restrictive than the GPL. As bunderbunder pointed out FreeBSD is not able to include GPL code, because the GPL is not compatible with the distribution terms for the kern
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by emaste 13y ago
A few corrections: LLVM/CLANG: GCC is still in the base FreeBSD source tree, and is still used for CPU architectures where Clang support is not sufficiently mature. In addition, the article claims that GCC will remain "for a tim
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by emaste 13y ago
This argument misses the distinction between the FreeBSD "base system" and the whole of the FreeBSD project, which includes more than 20,000 applications with all matter of licenses -- permissive, copyleft, and proprietary. Taken
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by emaste 13y ago
kFreeBSD recently gained native support (called FBTL). See http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2013/07/msg00060.html and http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~salinger/eglibc.fbtl/
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by emaste 13y ago
GCC is still available in the ports tree, and specific ports that depend on being built by GCC (for whatever reason) specify that requirement. This change affects only the GCC that shipped in the FreeBSD base system.
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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr-Jun 2013)(freebsd.org)
3 points by emaste 13y ago|0 comments
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by emaste 13y ago
posted last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5839043
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by emaste 13y ago
My Thinkpad X220 usually has a wall socket nearby, but I have been able to work on a flight from Toronto to San Francisco (a bit over 5 hours) without running out of battery. "acpiconf -i0" tells me my battery has a design capacit
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by emaste 13y ago
Virtualization is a priority, both as a host and a guest, but especially on the host side there's a fair amount of work to be done. BHyVe is FreeBSD's own hypervisor, and can run FreeBSD and Linux guests, but is not yet available
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by emaste 13y ago
FreeBSD works well enough for me on my Thinkpad X220, with the notable current exception of suspend and resume. If you can live with that for now I believe it will serve you well for your use case.
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by emaste 13y ago
Note that FreeBSD 8.4 is from the older stable release branch, and 9.2 will release from the more recent stable branch with a lot of additional functionality and enhancements. The topic of the zpool version for 8.4 is covered directly in th
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by emaste 13y ago
The release announcement, with links to the mirrors: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2013-Jun... And AWS ami IDs are in the usual spot on cperciva's page: http://www.daemonology
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by emaste 13y ago
Also, "Make sure your chosen license is clearly stated"

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