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by snw 11y ago
In many companies the IPv6 migration has already happened. For those that have not started yet it will be more expensive if they wait even longer. The hardest part seems to be training people. IPv6 is different - it is more than just "
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DTrace for Windows(github.com)
4 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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by snw 11y ago
well... there is illumos
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First reproducible builds conference in Athens(blog.netbsd.org)
2 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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Python: Generators, Coroutines, Native Coroutines and Async/Await(masnun.com)
147 points by snw 11y ago|30 comments
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Adventures in Open Source Software: Dealing with Security(geeklan.co.uk)
1 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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On Keeping Your Stuff to Yourself(ptribble.blogspot.com)
12 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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by snw 11y ago
it's a nice linux distribution. The packages are usually very stable and well tested. It does the job on the desktop and on the server. In that sense it is practical, not sure if "notable" as there are many other more popular
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Rootfool – dynamically disable and enable SIP in El Capitan(reverse.put.as)
1 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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Memory by the Slab: The Tale of Bonwick's Slab Allocator [video](paperswelove.org)
24 points by snw 11y ago|3 comments
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Memory by the Slab: The Tale of Bonwick's Slab Allocator [video](paperswelove.org)
1 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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Putting the Joy(ent) back into Docker(thshaw.blogspot.com)
2 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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by snw 11y ago
It's a (pretty great!) cloud orchestration software. Think OpenStack, CloudStack, SDC or an open-source AWS.
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PkgsrcCon 2015 recordings are online(pkgsrc.org)
1 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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by snw 11y ago
pkgsrc is brilliant for containers! Not using docker but zones as a container solution here, but what we do is bake images containing: pkgsrc + static config files + small scripts. To provision we take the image + metadata containing dynami
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NetBSD 7.0 RC1(blog.netbsd.org)
3 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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by snw 11y ago
The solaris forks are definitly not dead. What became of opensolaris is now known as illumos and there are quite a few specialized illumos distributions around like SmartOS, OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Nexenta Stor and a few more. I agree that you
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Tail Call Optimization(blahg.josefsipek.net)
2 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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by snw 11y ago
For those who don't know pkgsrc yet: It is a portable framework for building over 14,000 open source software packages. Besides NetBSD pkgsrc is the native package manager on SmartOS and Minix. It is portable across 22 different opera
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PkgsrcCon 2015 in Berlin(pkgsrc.org)
2 points by snw 11y ago|0 comments
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by snw 11y ago
as mentioned elsewhere in the discussion most open source folk that have not moved to linux seem to put their energy into illumos now. At least for illumos (SmartOS and OmniOS, ...) there is a lot of work happening for web services.
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by snw 11y ago
SmartOS offers two ways to host VMs: Zones & KVM. Zones is os-virtualization, so you run SmartOS zones on SmartOS but it uses the same kernel. KVM is hardware virtualization and allows you to run other operating systems on top. So you c
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by snw 11y ago
I've come to the illumos ecosystem about three years ago. First for SmartOS and ZFS. Now i know more about the great tech if offers like zones, dtrace and so on and use it nearly on all our servers. I know others are joining the commun
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by snw 12y ago
While sadly not merged upstream yet, it works very well. I've been running custom SmartOS "eait" builds from http://imgapi.uqcloud.net/builds (which include AMD support) for some time now without any issues.
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by snw 12y ago
there is also RFC 6920 "Naming Things with Hashes" https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6920
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by snw 12y ago
Recently there was a very intersting interview with Arthur Laffer. Watchable online: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/headtohead/2014/11/shoul...
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Pkgsrc – Portable Package Management(pkgsrc.joyent.com)
2 points by snw 12y ago|0 comments
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by snw 12y ago
after level 50 there are black & white tiles that increase/decrese the value when you step on them. Not so easy anymore
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by snw 12y ago
opensourcing sdc is great, but opening up manta for everyone is huge! Thanks!
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by snw 12y ago
try one of the Illumos distributions like OmniOS or SmartOS. The legacy of open-solaris is well and alive.

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