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FreeBSDCon 99 91
xlogan writes "I received my FreeBSD 99 catalog in the mail today from Walnut Creek and The FreeBSD Mall and it included a little brochure about FreeBSDCon '99. Hope I can get work to pay for the trip ;-) "
A large number of installed systems work by fiat. That is, they work by being declared to work. -- Anatol Holt
Re:Pity for the Victims of the Children's Crusade (Score:1)
Things are arranged for cdparanoia IV getting ported to FreeBSD as well. Monty is aiming for a more portable design than the present one.
More in a few weeks! :)
Proof? (Score:1)
Cola..... (Score:1)
Mascots (Score:1)
hrm (Score:1)
The few. (Score:1)
No one will mind.
WC has supported many. (Score:1)
Soemone has to pay the bills.
Re:Animosity (Score:1)
Now realize that most lamers wouldn't take the time to set up a registered account to get their kicks. That would require an e-mail address to use, some time....
Daemons (Score:1)
McKusick Seminar (Score:1)
Don't forget that Kirk McKusick is teaching a class on BSD Unix for the first two days. It's an extra $400 or so, but well worth it.
Looks to be very cool.
It's about time! (Score:1)
Andrew G. Feinberg
Re:It's about time! (Score:1)
BSD SMP support (Score:1)
Any clarification please.
other BSDs there as well? (Score:1)
Re:BSD SMP support (Score:1)
If you have a network-heavy application, the IP stack more than makes up the difference.
The SMP issues are being attacked in FreeBSD-current, and will be backported to -stable when possible. Check the freebsd-hackers mailing list archives for the gory details of the SMP discussions.
FWIW, I have a dual-processor 3.2-stable box, and it just flies.
Re:Pity for the Victims of the Children's Crusade (Score:1)
My
Re:Proof? (Score:1)
http://www.spatula.net/proc/index.src
and any log of more than five minutes talk on #freebsd?
Truly silly suggestion (Score:1)
Re:Not worth it (Score:1)
Re:Counting words... (Score:1)
How to use Vinum for the lazy and hopeless. (Score:1)
then make a "clone of the 'c' partition called 'e', make the FStype 'vinum'
run vinum and simply:
'stripe e e e'
It's really not _that_ bad.
Smoking from the wrong end of the pipe? (Score:1)
http://www.emsphone.com/stats/freebsd.html
Just something actually tangible. The growth is actually pretty astounding.
I'm not sure if i'm more confused by your definition of 'shrinking' or why _every_ FreeBSD related post on slashdot turns into an OS holy-war.
I just wanted to thank CmdrTaco for the forum to share FreeBSD related news.
Oh, and my company is paying for my FreeBSDCON experiance! w00p!
Pity for the Victims of the Children's Crusade (Score:1)
Eventually we will come to pity the mature forward-thinking people in the Linux community who have to put up with all these children.
Re:Daemons (Score:1)
Re:BSD SMP support (Score:2)
It all depends on your workload. The FreeBSD VM system is probably still superior to the Linux one (though Linux has seen a lot of improvements), which in many cases will make FreeBSD run faster than Linux, with or without SMP. For compilation benchmarks on an SMP system (and those may or may not be relevant for your workload), FreeBSD beat Linux easily in the last benchmark I saw.
For a threaded CPU-bound program, I would expect Linux to beat FreeBSD (though I've not tested the case). There are some scheduler changes that have just gone into FreeBSD-current (if I read my commit logs right) that should avoid cache trashing; this should give a clear speedup. We've also recently been looking at other SMP-related improvements (but none have entered the tree for a long time).
Eivind.
Re:Not worth it (Score:1)
xbilly (Score:1)
Xlogan is a wanker. He's sitting 15 feet away from me. Should I throw something at him?
Re:Pity for the Victims of the Children's Crusade (Score:1)
People, grow up!
Re:Another sign of BSD fragmentation (Score:1)
Re:Pity for Mickeysoft Astroturfers. (Score:1)
We aren't all Windows refugees, ya know. I for one use a wide variety of operating systems, including BeOS, OS/2, NetBSD, Slackware Linux, and yes, Microsoft.
Re:Proof? (Score:1)
Re:Pity for the Victims of the Children's Crusade (Score:1)
Damn right you do.
for cdparanoia, but that's about all it gets used for.
Awwww, dammit.
Just need a hard drive, and my FreeBSD system will be up and open for play time...
--Logan
Slackware Core Team
Re:bsd.... (Score:1)
Re:bsd.... (Score:1)
Re:Not worth it (Score:1)
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Re:xbilly (Score:1)
He's a part of who you are.
Your next raise depends on him...
Go give him a hug.
But wait a minute, my camera is in the car...
Are you sure? (Score:1)
Apparently now that Slashdot is getting exposure in the mainstream media, every pointy-headed cretin with a computer has been drawn here to try to spoil things. This is an unfortunate indication of the state of our species' gene pool.