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Jordan Hubbard Interviewed On OPN's #FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the on-air-jordan dept.

flynn_nrg writes: "As a lot of you already know, an interview with Jordan was held Sunday January 27 at 10:30 PM EST. The log of the interview has been posted in bsdvault.net. The complete text of our question and answer session with Jordan Hubbard can be found here. Jordan was mainly asked about his work at Apple and SMPng, the new SMP code that will debut on 5.0. Enjoy ..."

9 comments

  1. No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    An interview with L. Ron's son?
    Secret scientology keywords embedded into an IRC transcript.
    Beanie hats at the ready kiddies, this shit's wild.

  2. Dear Jordan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    BSD is dead

    luv
    /.

  3. *BSD is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for lss than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dead

    1. Re:*BSD is dead by xA40D · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Every time there is a BSD discussion someone posts this. I salute your originallity. Yes, you're a troll, and yes I'm biting, so I suppose I'm no better than you. But for gods sake come up with something more original

      And if you can't well I'll just take it as read that spreading anti-BSD FUD.

      As for me I'll continue using BSD. It does what I want it to do and it does it well. And I've never used anything that even came close. If it does die then so be it. I'll simply go out and find another OS

      But untill I hear otherwise I'll carry on using it.

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      Do you mind, your karma has just run over my dogma.
  4. preemptive multitasking by Moderator · · Score: 1, Funny


    [23:32] I think the coolest feature of 5.0 will be the ferret thread. This is a kernel thread which runs around throughout the system and randomly moves things around, playfully changes file modes, "bites" through open connections and just generally raises havok. We feel that this

    [23:32] feature will make the computer more of a pet than a simple inanimate object



    Lol, this sounds more like a Microsoft feature.

    BTW, was anyone else annoyed that this 'interview' was done in an IRC style format? I mean, it's kind of hard to sort out and read that way.

    --
    The World is Yours.
  5. More on the scheduler changes by Roger+Watson · · Score: 2, Informative
    the scheduler rewrite is about to hit its first major milestone with KSE 3, which will be presented and discussed at BSDCon

    There's a bit of background here: currently FreeBSD has a much-maligned userland thread scheduler, typically used to handle pthreads and other rightful divisions of a process. It also uses a simple round-robin kernel scheduler to handle "heavy" processes. KSE 3, OTOH, will support many new features:

    • LWP support for both user and kernel threads. This is similar to the implementation in Solaris, which has an extraordinarily well-written scheduler.
    • More progress has been made toward a fully pre-emptable kernel, which will be very useful on large SMP systems.
    • Real-time scheduling (as in QNX and RTOS) will be supported, which should greatly improve performance on native video recording and playback software as well as games.
    • FIFO support will be added, as well as a more fine-grained way to set priorities.
    --rwatson
    1. Re:More on the scheduler changes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FIFO support? As in "mkfifo"? What's so new about that?

  6. here is the original log. by sinserve · · Score: 1

    [00:11] thanks for organizing this
    [00:11] talk to y'all later!
    [00:11] * _jkh waves
    [00:11] *** _jkh (jkh@apple.com) has left #freebsd

    a minute later ...

    [00:13] *** rootkid (jkh@apple.com) has joined #freebsd
    [00:13] whaz000p bitches; I am back for idling.

    1. Re:here is the original log. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And this means, what?