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OpenBSD 3.0 Release, Interview with Theo

Posted by michael on from the wuftpd-not-installed-by-default dept.

mvw writes: "Here is an interview with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt. Interesting is his comment on Soft Updates and the comparison to the rivaling Journaling file systems technology. Further he links to a very interesting paper by some Soft Updates researchers." And although OpenBSD 3.0 has an "official" release date of December 1 for whatever reason, it seems to be available by FTP or CD already. Lots of changes since 2.9.

7 of 307 comments (clear)

  1. Re:As much as I by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So who'd you choose? Brittney Cleary or the Mary-Kate/Ashley tag-team?

  2. Re:Release Date by gmhowell · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does anyone have a mirror of the GET-A-CLUE-SLASHDOT.TXT?

    And I see that yet again, criticism of slashdot is modded into oblivion.

    --
    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  3. SLACKERS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You trolls are slacking off! It took you almost 30 minutes to post the *BSD is dead troll on a blatantly obvious BSD article!

    Better start beefing your trolls up. You're gonna get overrun by a buncha girly geeks!

    -DFW : Jamie banned.

  4. Looking to get into using BSD by browser_war_pow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm interested in getting started with a BSD, but which one I should use I don't know. I'm not that afraid of having to configure hardware myself, but I'd prefer something that makes a reasonable attempt to do that for me.

    So.....
    1. Which is the easiest/best to get started with?
    2. Which has the best documentation
    3. Do any of them have compatability with Linux configuration tools like Kudzu and HardDrake?
    4. Which one supports the most x86 hardware

  5. Re:This whole article is moot. by bitty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Okay troll, I'll bite.

    Try pulling your head out of your ass before spouting off next time. Usenet posts don't prove squat. Have you ever even thought to look at the archives of the various *non-usenet* mailing lists?

    And Netcraft, they only talk about servers running web sites. My firewalls don't run websites, my email server doesn't run a web site, my print server doesn't run a web site, my home computer doesn't run a web site...

    Yes, by all means, let's keep to the facts.

  6. Re:ISO download by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You could, but it's illegal. Whatever that means to you.

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    "If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
  7. Re:I'm waitting on our 3 OpenBSD CDs by alexhmit01 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I found that, thanks for the help. The problem I found (I haven't tried this in 2 months) is that those numbers weren't aggressive enough. I tried just doubling those, but monitoring the results, one of the parameters appeared to have a max. Certain values appeared to be manually overridden in param.c, etc.

    Again, I wanted details, I got One (1) example. I was trying to assign 1GB of buffers, which required much more shared memory than that, and I appeared to hit a cap before I reached that.

    OTOH, my Linux install handled it beatifully with 1 (non-compile time) configuration change. Red Hat now has my database server, complete with a dual-processor machine.

    PostgreSQL is developed for Linux and Solaris... sticking to one of those two platforms has some advantages.

    Alex