Entries tagged with 'freebsd'

Links of interest for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008:

Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative.
Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting [...]

I stumbled upon a great article (via Ars Technica) by Jeff Bonwick, responding to Andrew Morton’s claim that ZFS is a “rampant layering violation” because it cuts across the traditionally separate worlds of the filesystem, volume manager, and RAID controller.
I think ZFS is a brilliant invention and believe it’ll go far. It removes complexity [...]

Links of interest for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007:

Google Summer of Code - Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! They’ve accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications.
Sun Acquires Java-based Mobile Phone OS - Oooh, maybe Sun will be jumping on the iPhone clone [...]

Links of interest for 1 April 2007 - 8 April 2007:

ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. - Solaris, FreeBSD and soon OS X, who’s next?
I See You! snoop(1M)’ing in non-global zones! - A great article on using snoop within a non-global (local) zone. Take special note of the warnings as you may inadvertently allow [...]