Sunday, March 02, 2008 at 04:06 AM

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.org / Sunday, November 09, 2008 at 07:40 PM

FreshPorts -- textproc/rdiscount

RDiscount, a fast Markdown library for Ruby, is now included with the FreeBSD ports collection thanks to Daniel Roethlisberger.

freebsd.org / Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 02:02 AM

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Announcement

I thought I had a few more months. Dammit. This is going to be a huge time-sink.

img46.imageshack.us / Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 01:55 AM

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.

ventnorsblog.blogspot.com / Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 01:30 PM

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.sourceforge.net / Tuesday, February 05, 2008 at 10:53 PM

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.

varnish.projects.linpro.no / Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 07:33 AM

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.”

blogs.sun.com / Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 01:33 AM

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.”

lists.freebsd.org / Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 09:23 AM

unix domain sockets vs. internet sockets

Pretty much what you thought but with great detail :)