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by swills 10y ago
"During this time other efforts such as BSD, MINIX, etc were developed to be UNIX like-systems. However, one thing that all these UNIX like-systems had in common was the lack of a unified kernel." BSD and MINIX lack a Unified kern
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Literature survey for practical TSX lock elision applications(halobates.de)
1 points by swills 10y ago|0 comments
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New Digital Face Manipulation Means You Can’t Trust Video Anymore(singularityhub.com)
9 points by swills 10y ago|1 comments
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Swift now available on FreeBSD(freshports.org)
4 points by swills 10y ago|1 comments
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by swills 10y ago
I like how they're boasting about how much effort it took them to figure out people want something simple and easy to use.
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FreeBSD 2016Q1 Status Report(freebsd.org)
1 points by swills 10y ago|0 comments
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The People and Tech Behind the Panama Papers(source.opennews.org)
1 points by swills 11y ago|0 comments
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by swills 11y ago
The thing that stood out for me was: "...team...worked in shifts overnight..."
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by swills 11y ago
Putting this here just because it's something I often find people aren't aware of and it's somewhat relevant: If you want to run 10.3 on Google Compute engine, official images from the release engineering team are available.
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TLS-Check – Collect information about domains and their servers(github.com)
5 points by swills 11y ago|0 comments
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by swills 11y ago
dma is already in base, just not default
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SNES Play Station BIOS(bsxproj.superfamicom.org)
4 points by swills 11y ago|0 comments
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Systemd vs. Docker(lwn.net)
2 points by swills 11y ago|1 comments
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by swills 11y ago
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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by swills 11y ago
I guess it depends on how you look at it. It uses upstart to start all the sysvinit scripts, no? I know you can create upstart jobs and they'll get started, I've done that. But you're right, it doesn't make "real&qu
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by swills 11y ago
RHEL 6 (and CentOS 6 by extension) use Upstart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart#Adoption Not that I disagree with your comments on Red Hat, but let's get our facts right.
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Duel of Two Libraries: Cairo and Skia(slideshare.net)
12 points by swills 11y ago|1 comments
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Duel of Two Libraries: Cairo and Skia(slideshare.net)
1 points by swills 11y ago|0 comments
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by swills 11y ago
It's also fun to change the encryption: KexAlgorithms curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 Ciphers aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ct
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by swills 11y ago
At the bottom of this page you see: All content Copyright © 2010 – 2015 Foundation for Excellence in Education Wikipedia says the Foundation for Excellence in Education is a think tank established by Jeb Bush and has received funding from B
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by swills 11y ago
I'm getting the feeling that's unlikely to change. Are you not interested?
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by swills 11y ago
Glad to see a BSD license, some support for BSD licensed OSs would be nice. Am I missing it?
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by swills 11y ago
Ah, sorry.
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by swills 11y ago
Second repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10096891
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by swills 11y ago
There is a brief mention of FreeBSD in the article, but more would have been nice.
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by swills 11y ago
I had a middle school shop teacher who used GEOS, but never used it personally. What I find interesting from the PDF you linked is that GEOS was developed on UNIX using a cross assembler and emulator. Never would have expected that.
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by swills 11y ago
Further evidence that the SSL/TLS model of combining transport security and trust is broken.
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by swills 11y ago
Why the re-post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950292
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Goodbye, OpenStack(gigofham.com)
116 points by swills 11y ago|25 comments
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by swills 11y ago
Oh and about the X thing, do you have a Haswell processor? And are you using the VGA driver for X? I had that, bought a $20 ATI card, works fine now, 3D acceleration in KWM and everything.

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