Singularity OS

2008-03-06 Thread Adrian Fisher
Hello chaps :) I just saw this on the net about a new OS from M$ called Singularity. What do you think of it thus far? http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/174267/microsoft-releases-robust-new-operating-system.html

Re: [Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-01 Thread Adrian Fisher
There are a small number of people that command respect in the IT industry and as far as I know, Richard and Theo are two such people. I am sure that if people like you began to endorse open source hardware more people would move in that direction. I remember reading a quote from Sun about

Programming Course

2007-12-28 Thread Adrian Fisher
I have read some (time does not allow me to read it all) of the threads about C vs.C++ and would like to know if anyone here has worked through the courses from either of the following people and if so, what did you think? I read in the thread with Linus's thoughts of C++ but am curious that if he

OpenBSD from scratch

2007-11-11 Thread Adrian Fisher
Hello all, I am sure many of you will be familiar with the web-site Linux from scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) which is fine for those who wish to use Linux but is has anyone here tried it with Open? A.

Open hardware.

2007-11-03 Thread Adrian Fisher
How much modern computer hardware is fully open source or at least has fully open interfaces that allow anyone to create device drivers? I Sun and another company (Anglo-Italian firm Simply-RISC) released a processor based on Suns offering but has anyone else? Would you be more inclined to buy a

Re: Remembering Jun-ichiro Hagino

2007-11-01 Thread Adrian Fisher
This thread is the first I have heard of him. Who is (or was) he? A. On 01/11/2007, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, on Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:04:37AM +0100, ropers said that How would people feel about creating a Wikipedia article for Itojun? Surely his IPv6 work makes him

Re: : expansion of FAQ# 1.10 re OpenBSD as a desktop system

2007-10-15 Thread Adrian Fisher
I know what you mean, I have to use Flash 9 :S A. On 15/10/2007, Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:25:46PM -0700, Karsten McMinn wrote: On 10/11/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I absolutely LOVE the fact that OpenBSD doesn't support

AMD Quad Core

2007-10-06 Thread Adrian Fisher
Has anyone here used a new Quad Core chip from AMD (or indeed Intel) and if so, how do they run with OpenBSD? A.

OpenCVS

2007-09-19 Thread Adrian Fisher
1. Who here knows about OpenCVS? 2. How is it used? 3. When will it be released? Will it be released at the same time as 4.2? Regards, A.

Virtualisation

2007-09-10 Thread Adrian Fisher
Hello there, Does OpenBSD support virtualisation where multiple computers operate as one single virtual system rather than just one system running as multiple virtual systems? I am thinking of buying a series of blade systems which I want to run as one single system to offer redundancy for

Re: Virtualisation

2007-09-10 Thread Adrian Fisher
, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 10, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Adrian Fisher wrote: Hello there, Does OpenBSD support virtualisation where multiple computers operate as one single virtual system rather than just one system running as multiple virtual systems? I am thinking

New user help

2007-09-04 Thread Adrian Fisher
Hello there, I recently began to read about OpenBSD with a view to installing it on my home system (I am somewhat new to Unix) and while I was able to install the base system without any problems I was unable to find clear instructions or pointers on how to go on from there. I wish to install