GNU is killing Solaris
I can’t think of single piece (package?) of software I use, admire, and depend on more than GNU Coreutils. Maybe Firefox. Maybe OpenSSH. Some days rsync(1).
FreshPorts -- textproc/rdiscount
RDiscount, a fast Markdown library for Ruby, is now included with the FreeBSD ports collection thanks to Daniel Roethlisberger.
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Announcement
I thought I had a few more months. Dammit. This is going to be a huge time-sink.
A Nice Big Purple Reddit Stack Trace
reddit.com is running Pylons-0.9.6, Paste-1.4.2, Routes-1.7, Beaker-0.7.5 on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (amd64). Wow. Nice environment.
Firefox 3 nightly builds shipping w/ FreeBSD's malloc(3) implementation
“The reason we are integrating our own allocator is that we've found jemalloc to be better than all the default allocators of our three main platforms (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux)”
htop - top(1) replacement with hierarchical process listing, nicer keyboard interface, and more...
Runs on Linux and FreeBSD (with linproc mounted on /compat/linux/proc). I've always wondered why top(1) just kind of stopped being developed 10 years ago.
ArchitectNotes - Varnish
“I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occation to do so, I invariably found that people programmed like it was still 1975.”
ZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk?
Schwartz: “… we will be going after sizable monetary damages. And I am committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent reform, and to the legal defense of free software innovators.”