Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-12 Thread John Kozubik
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Jason Hellenthal wrote: I am looking at the upcoming release schedule, and I only see 9.1 listed - can anyone confirm or deny 8.4 ? Although I am not on re@, AFAIK the only schedule that is on the table is the one for 9.1. Release 8.3 (April 2012) has it really been 6

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-12 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Matt, On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Matt Olander wrote: So, we've (iXsystems, PC-BSD) been kicking around the idea of a Long Term Supported version of PC-BSD Server, which is really FreeBSD with some PC-BSD cli tools and perhaps maintaining our own binary update server. While we were thinking of

Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-11 Thread John Kozubik
Friends, I am looking at the upcoming release schedule, and I only see 9.1 listed - can anyone confirm or deny 8.4 ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Moving on ... (was: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with...)

2012-02-08 Thread John Kozubik
Hello, On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: I normally hate to dredge up old threads, but this is like getting halfway through a story and not finding out the ending... :) What is the answer? Is there a solution to this? When I wrote the original post, I was expecting at most a benign

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-19 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Doug, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 01/18/2012 11:46, John Kozubik wrote: - mark 9 as the _only_ production release While I understand your motivation, I am not sure this is a workable goal when combined with the goal that others have expressed of longer timelines

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-19 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Doug, On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Doug Barton wrote: What I've proposed instead is a new major release every 2 1/2 years, where the new release coincides with the EOL of the oldest production release. That way we have a 5-year cycle of support for each major branch, and no more than 2 production

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-19 Thread John Kozubik
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Dieter BSD wrote: John writes: - EOL 7 - mark 8 as legacy - mark 9 as the _only_ production release - release 10.0 in January 2017 Until a few days ago 8 was the latest, shinest release. So you want to suddenly demote it all the way down to legacy? I thought the goal

Re: FreeBSD is becoming ... by, and for, FreeBSD developers - clarification

2012-01-18 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Poul, Andriy, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: FreeBSD has _always_ been a project by the community, for the community and there is no way it can be any other way. (You can consider this a law of nature as far as voluntary organizations of intelligent beings governed by the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread John Kozubik
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Robert Watson wrote: I think John gets a lot of what he wants if we just fix our release cycle. Agreed. I still think that having two production releases running simultaneously really hurts focus and the end product, but that's not going to keep us from using

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread John Kozubik
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: I was thinking about this and I'm with Andriy on this: such solution has no long term potential and will only serve to stagnate the innovation. This has been repeated over and over in this thread, but it's worth another mention, currently, there are

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
Ivan, On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Ivan Voras wrote: 2) Having two simultaneous production releases draws focus away from both of them, and keeps any release from ever truly maturing. This isn't how things work. The -CURRENT always has (and probably always had and always will have) the focus of

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: I've concluded very early that because of what I've said above, the only way to run FreeBSD effectively is to track -STABLE. The developers MFC-ing stuff usually try hard not to break

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Ivan, Thanks for the insights below ... see my comments inline: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Ivan Voras wrote: Ability to use freebsd-update. It would be better to have more frequent releases. As a prime example, ZFS became much more stable about 3 months after 8.2 was released. If you were

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mark Felder wrote: Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! More

RE: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Devin, On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Devin Teske wrote: I brought this up in last weekend's BAFUG meeting... We're _very_ interested in replicating the long-lifecycle of the 4-series with a newer series. But which one? Right now, we're jumping to the 8-series, but after seeing that one of the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Doug, Thanks a lot for these comments and insight - response below... On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Doug Barton wrote: I tried to make the point back in June that there was no reason to cut 9.0-RELEASE yet because we don't have solid support for clang in either the base, or ports (amongst several

FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-16 Thread John Kozubik
, but it's a lot easier if the project isn't simultaneously working on a second production release at the same time. Thank you for reading this. I look forward to comments and discussion. John Kozubik [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-September/006630.html [2] Thank you

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-16 Thread John Kozubik
Julian, On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Julian Elischer wrote: It pretty much boils down to one thing.. man power.. Wouldn't there be more manpower available for more frequent minor releases if the project were not undertaking two simultaneous production releases ? Specifically, wouldn't it have

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-16 Thread John Kozubik
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Steven Hartland wrote: I was disappointed to see that 8.3-RELEASE is now slated to come out in March of 2012. This will be ~13 months since 8.2-RELEASE and is typical of a trend towards longer gaps between minor releases. ... I must say as a small company that runs

Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-24 Thread John Kozubik
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)): First, a bounty has been posted here: http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12

Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-19 Thread John Kozubik
all probably already running Linux Binary Compat anyway... - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Re: VMware5 port - bounty proposed

2007-04-10 Thread John Kozubik
Sean, On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Sean C. Farley wrote: I have spent a good deal of time last year attempting to port VMware 5.5.x to FreeBSD. Due to time, too many other projects and a beginning level of driver development knowledge (someday I will fix this part :)), I do not feel I can continue

rapid file creation on snapshotted filesystems panics lockmgr

2004-07-07 Thread John Kozubik
is contained in a tarball of /usr/ports/devel. I have submitted this as PR misc/68757. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

writing to RW-mounted UFS2 snapshots - confirmed.

2004-06-30 Thread John Kozubik
it again normally, the created file(s) still exist in it, and any changes made to existing files in the snapshot are persistent as well. I don't know what context this was being discussed in, but this behavior does indeed exist, and I believe it to be a somewhat serious problem. - John Kozubik

Re: FreeBSD firewall for high profile hosts - waste of time ?

2003-01-16 Thread John Kozubik
: http://www.kozubik.com/published/freebsd_bridging_ipfw.txt - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: multi-link 802.11b through netgraph yields poor performance.

2002-07-08 Thread John Kozubik
conditions. Comments ? In the meantime I will retry this experiment with Cisco cards exclusively. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: [hackers] Re: multi-link 802.11b through netgraph yields poorperformance.

2002-07-08 Thread John Kozubik
am considering conducting this experiment again with only `an` cards. It would be very nice if there were a firmware tool for these cards for FreeBSD, however I have heard that is a non-trivial project. Comments ? - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe

multi-link 802.11b through netgraph yields poor performance.

2002-07-07 Thread John Kozubik
seeing (half of packets dropped and high latency) exist are appreciated. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-23 Thread John Kozubik
for a default of KVA_PAGES=256, however 4.5 and 4.6 have a KVA_PAGES=260 setting in LINT, which I assume is also the default ... why the increase of 4 since 4.4-RELEASE ? - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com The pages are all going to be off-by-one from your calculations

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-23 Thread John Kozubik
the archives, please see my previous post in this thread for specific details. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: can't mount cdrom 4.6-RELEASE

2002-06-20 Thread John Kozubik
/acd0c # mknod /dev/acd0c c 117 0 - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

jail in 4.5-RELEASE: setrlimit() and blocked processes

2002-04-17 Thread John Kozubik
penalty as a result of this ... except, again, in the `vmstat` output. I have no explanation for this. Comments ? - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Question about possibly additions to TOP

2002-04-10 Thread John Kozubik
thanks for your patch - I think this _will_ be useful. Since there are security implications in giving arbitrary jail root users access to their own /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, and /dev/io devices, the ability to run `top` without these items is very useful. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: periodic firewire max-out question

2002-03-04 Thread John Kozubik
, if the devices are bus-powered as opposed to wall-powered. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, James wrote: From: John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still do not yet own 63 firewire devices, and so, once again, I am wondering if anyone here has

periodic firewire max-out question

2002-03-03 Thread John Kozubik
I still do not yet own 63 firewire devices, and so, once again, I am wondering if anyone here has ever actually connected 128 devices to a firewire host adaptor and had operational success... (or heard reports of it being successfully done in the wild ?) Comments welcome. thanks. - John

IBSS creation - summary

2001-10-23 Thread John Kozubik
be and attempt to make connection. It will work. You will also have an indication that it is working based on rapid flashing of the activity light on the Lucent/Agere/Orinico/(insert OEM'd version of that card here). - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe

Re: IBSS creation - summary

2001-10-23 Thread John Kozubik
0 for signal strength on both machines. I will continue my testing... - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

How broken is IBSS creation (wicontrol) these days ?

2001-10-22 Thread John Kozubik
) If it is indeed a mistake on my part, help is appreciated. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: bluetooth

2001-10-04 Thread John Kozubik
I found my cards at pricewatch.com - just type bluetooth into the top search textbox - you should see 3com and xircom cards come up for $120 - $150. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Nicolai Petri wrote: Hi Warner, I've seen cards

bluetooth

2001-10-03 Thread John Kozubik
not duplicate anyones work. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: bluetooth

2001-10-03 Thread John Kozubik
I had a feeling if anyone was looking into it that you were - if nobody else is looking at it, I'll start working. I have a 3com and a xircom. Please keep this in mind if you hear of anyone on (or starting on) a similar track, and I will watch -mobile. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED

OT: firewire slugs available ?

2001-09-06 Thread John Kozubik
developed for just this type of development) Comments and information appreciated. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: How to make bootable disk boot images with vn device?

2001-08-23 Thread John Kozubik
as a whole describes a different process than what you are doing, but this piece of the article is (I think) exactly what you need. I would be happy to help further if you need it. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote: Hello

Re: PR bin/7265 - ln

2001-07-11 Thread John Kozubik
designate where the link attempted to incorrectly send the user. - John Kozubik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kozubik.com On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: I'm going to dig up and old can of worms here, but I think I have something new to offer that might fix