Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy

2015-03-31 Thread David Chisnall
On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:36, Kevin Zheng kevinz5...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/30/2015 03:53, k...@3msg.es wrote: I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage implementation. The actual implementation is quite small

Re: Voxer using FreeBSD, BSDNow.tv interview

2014-10-20 Thread David Chisnall
On 19 Oct 2014, at 23:09, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@freebsd.org wrote: (2) Most devops engineers in web/mobile companies are familiar with Linux. Any differences between Linux and FreeBSD in command-line utilities are not show-stoppers, but they are annoyances.

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 1 Apr 2014, at 23:10, Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com wrote: Audio output is pretty system dependent, but I had little problem getting my audio to auto-switch to headphones when I plugged them in. The setup is a bit ugly,but I only had to check the available PINs (ugly, ugly) and set up

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread David Chisnall
On 1 Apr 2014, at 08:11, Jordan Hubbard j...@mail.turbofuzz.com wrote: 1. Power. As you point out, being truly power efficient is a complete top-to-bottom engineering effort and it takes a lot more than just trying to idle the processor whenever possible to achieve that. You need to

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread David Chisnall
Hi Dru, On 11 Jun 2012, at 20:33, Dru Lavigne wrote: The BSDCG gets requests quite often from employers who are looking for admins with BSD skills. We refer them to our BSDA certified linked in group as its members are all BSDA certified. There is also a linkedin group for those

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread David Chisnall
On 12 Jun 2012, at 22:15, Jared Barneck wrote: Or you could start a company that uses FreeBSD on such systems and see if you can make it... Someone did: http://semihalf.com/ David___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list