I'm not sure what the challenges involved are since I'm just a .NET guy who uses a debian home server, but I would switch to FreeBSD instantly if I could get utf-8 support in my irssi.
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Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
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>Linux will soon have btrfs, which is as good as (if not better than) ZFS. btrfs does not even try to solve the problem I want zfs for; snapshots over the network. You see, when you deal with a large amount of storage (especially if you deal with that storage as block devices that run arbitrary filesystems, and not just files on a filesystem) the bottleneck for backups becomes disk bandwidth, not network bandwidth, s…
> btrfs does not even try to solve the problem I want zfs for; snapshots over the network. This a recent Ubuntu system (ie not using development trees etc) $ btrfs send --help usage: btrfs send btrfs send [-v] [-i ] [-p ] Send the subvolume to stdout. $ btrfs receive --help usage: btrfs receive btrfs receive [-v] [-i ] Receive subvolumes from stdin.
Ooh. thanks. this post is probably the most useful bit of information I've read this month. Hm. I will have to research more, but this might... change things significantly. I mean, it's still a newish feature, not something you want for backups, but between that an bcache, Linux looks like it might deserve another look, storage-wise.
Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand. There are lots of alternatives. - Aix - HP-UX - Solaris - Tru64 - MacOS X - QNX Or do you mean you don't pay for your OS?
I don't think any of those are Open Source. There is OpenSolaris, but you didn't list that.
I don't think OpenSolaris is open anymore, maybe you're thinking of IllumOS or OpenIndiana.
Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
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This is a great idea! I think it would be a waste of time for FreeBSD to take the entire desktop market on -- Linux has been fighting that battle for years -- but it would be awesome if Dell/HP/Lenovo came out with a PC-BSD-based laptop with official support. (For those not familiar with FreeBSD, PC-BSD is the "Desktop" edition of FreeBSD.) Another feature I'd really like to see the FreeBSD Foundation focus on this y…
Dell/HP/Lenovo won't do that - the most they're likely to do is half-assed support for Linux. That's why it would be neat if FreeBSD to get themselves working solidly on a single platform, because fans would have a reliable option.
Recent thinkpads recognize FreeBSD as an OS, and then promptly have tons of issues with poorly designed ACPI.
Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
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A much improved binary package management system, known as "pkgng," is on the horizon. More information is available at https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng . Pkgng will feel very natural to anyone familiar with apt. If you'd like an introduction to pkgng there's a video from BSDCan 2012 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hxq7AHZ27I , or see the README at https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/blob/master/README.md .
I'm looking forward to it!
You can try it on FreeBSD-CURRENT...It's really night-and-day better than it used to be. Less underscores, and it runs about 20-40% faster than the old one even when "adding" software compiled from source (portmaster -day is almost twice as fast).
Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Note: One the reasons the OpenBSD ifconfig man page is so big is because on OpenBSD ifconfig does the job of multiple Linux utils, because it makes sense to have ifconfig control all the interface state. https://linux.die.net/man/8/ip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2
More addon tools simply proves the point. Task / BSD / Linux set ip / ifconfig / ifconfig or now "ip" which is extremely confusing wifi / ifconfig / iwconfig speed / ifconfig / miitool or ethtool duplex / ifconfig / miitool or ethtool vlan / ifconfig / vlan wol / ifconfig / miitool or ethtool bridge / ifconfig / brctl link aggregation / ifconfig / flags while loading module OR use distro network config scripts and re…
> Linux = complicated, by distro/version
Most Linux distros are adopting consistent naming schemes, using biosdevname algorithm, e.g.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDev...
> More addon tools simply proves the point.
I was only showing that comparing Linux’s ifconfig with BSD’s ifconfig is not fair, not really making any point.
I don’t see how this is all that confusing though, you get ip for managing routing and iw/ethtool/etc for managing interfaces or creating interfaces on lower networking levels or device level. It’s just different.
Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm looking forward to it!
You can try it on FreeBSD-CURRENT...It's really night-and-day better than it used to be. Less underscores, and it runs about 20-40% faster than the old one even when "adding" software compiled from source (portmaster -day is almost twice as fast).
I'm using this[1], but having problems finding a binary repo where to get pkgng and the packages "ports".
[1] - https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/10.0-HE...