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by swills 11y ago
The Chromium issue was fixed recently. Try updating your Chromium to at least 43.0.2357.132. The VirtualBox issue is long standing, it's caused by the fact that vbox is setuid. Try this: env KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1 VirtualBox
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by swills 11y ago
Given the existence of Intel x86 microprocessor microcode updates Intel x86 chips are right out.
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace(vimeo.com)
2 points by swills 11y ago|1 comments
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by swills 11y ago
Great story, thanks for posting it. Really well written. The section on Gage at the end reminds me of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace: https://vimeo.com/groups/96331/videos/80799353
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by swills 12y ago
Which C++ runtime is ubiquitous? I can think of at least 3 C++ runtimes (MS, libstdc++, libc++).
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by swills 12y ago
C++ does usually require a runtime.
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by swills 12y ago
Why add all the missing pieces to the other tools (maven, etc) when the OS has the tool (rpm, deb, etc) with all these pieces already? I think that is the reaction that most people have when they see maven or similar tools.
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by swills 12y ago
I completely agree with this except I think of it more as a problem of release engineering rather than system administration. The trouble is, the sysadmin's job is to deploy things. The developers job is to write code. Often release en
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by swills 12y ago
I have to wonder, are we all really comfortable with GitHub being basically the only free code hosting option? Yes, SourceForge(t) is still around, but with the talk of them injecting adware into downloads, I'm sure many wouldn't
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by swills 12y ago
There's also the syncthing port and owncloud sync support via mirall.
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by swills 12y ago
Good point, I glossed over that detail, but they are comparing to only open source OS's, so my examples are bad. Still, looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_opera... I think Linux is t
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by swills 12y ago
There does seem to be one part of their announcement that's a bit off: While similar to other open source unix-like operating systems, it’s unique in that the development of both its kernel and user space utilities are managed by t
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by swills 12y ago
Agreed, this is really great news, I'm trying it out now.
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by swills 12y ago
Found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPQiHyJj7Wk introducing the Google Radio Automation suite which seems to be what came after the SS32 thing mentioned in the article. Seems like Google got out of that busines
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by swills 12y ago
If you read the commit messages you will often see a "Sponsored by:" line, and it's not uncommon to see those companies referenced, so they are supporting FreeBSD, just in the form of developer time. And I believe they also d
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WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation(freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com)
1230 points by swills 12y ago|204 comments
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by swills 12y ago
Wait, which of those two (kernels/compilers/etc. or games/content/etc) are you suggesting have developers who work for free?
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by swills 12y ago
FreeBSD already has it in ports: http://www.freshports.org/security/libressl And there is work underway to make it an option for things that use OpenSSL currently.
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by swills 13y ago
Netflix does contribute quite a bit: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors Or search for "Sponsored by: Netflix" in the commit messages.
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by swills 13y ago
Good point about the feedback loop. My experience in the educational software industry was that it was the worst of both worlds: the broken feedback loop, but slower because of yearly cycles, plus they don't want to pay as much as ente
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by swills 13y ago
[Actually interesting topic] - 0 comments -- this thread is proof!
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The admin’s manifesto(blog.bimajority.org)
2 points by swills 13y ago|0 comments
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by swills 13y ago
A CVE would be nice.
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by swills 16y ago
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ may be helpful to you. KDE works great.