Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote:
What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or
participate in its development by following this list? Technical
features, methodologies, something about the community?
First of all, I'm a FreeBSD user (since 2.0.5), and I'm not
:Today I think that the SSI goal has become less important.
:The cluster hype has diminished and been partially
:replaced by the cloud hype. Today, it is extremely
:important to have excellent SMP scalability. Multi-core
:systems are common, my desktop at home is a 6-core AMD
:Phenom II X6 which
I enjoyed working with pre Sys-V SunOS. I blame taking the C compiler
out of the distro, the giving in to peer pressure to move to Sys-V,
and the decade lost in the pipe dream of replacing Windows with
platform-independent Java for the turning of Sun Microsystems into an
overpriced chair
The next release of pkgsrc, 2010Q3, is due out Oct. 1st. DragonFly 2.8 is
going to be out soon after. I stopped the automatic builds of pkgsrc in
the various places I'm building it, as I don't think there's going to be
any changes to really catch at this point.
So, I expect to have
On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=18120%20600038493IsNodeId=1name=1TB
-DR
:On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these :
:
:http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=18120%20600038493IsNodeId=1name=1TB
:
:-DR
I'm a bit leery of PCIe based SSDs. They have a ton of bandwidth but
they are also going to be driver-dependent and