Re: SILI-3132 driver progress report.

2009-06-20 Thread Michel Talon
do it in three days. Wow! you are faster than God himself! I have the idea that some people whom i will not mention will turn green reading that ... -- Michel Talon

Re: fdisk implementation

2008-07-10 Thread Michel Talon
, no bsd partitions. In other words, it is of very limited utility, in my opinion. A good partitioning tool is still lacking for FreeBSD, able to do at least what Linux cfdisk does so simply. I suppose the geometry problems which plague FreeBSD sysinstall are also present on sfdisk. -- Michel Talon

Re: SMP question

2008-01-27 Thread Michel Talon
circumventing the patents. To take another exemple it took many years Solaris to be considered better than the good old slowlaris system. -- Michel Talon

Open Mosix

2007-07-16 Thread Michel Talon
I think it is not irrelevant to mention here the announcement: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=715406 Moshe Bar, openMosix founder and project leader, has announced plans to end the openMosix Project effective March 1, 2008. The increasing power and availability of low cost

Re: To be a new DFly commiter

2007-03-17 Thread Michel Talon
Matthew Dillon wrote: I personally believe that postfix is superior. I personally do not mind running GPL'd code. But I also would prefer to have as little GPL'd code in our managed code base as possible. What does this mean? I would dearly like to integrate portions

Re: To be a new DFly commiter

2007-03-17 Thread Michel Talon
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: One has to be totally unaware of realities to suggest tools from obscure Linux distributions, wether they are good or bad, when such distribution may collapse at any moment. Already the move to NetBSD pkgsrc has cost DFLY division by 3 of the number of available

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-18 Thread Michel Talon
Rupert Pigott wrote: On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:39:30 -0500, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: True, but Matt has explained that ZFS doesn't provide the functionality that DragonFlyBSD needs for cluster computing. ZFS solves the problem of building a bigger fileserver, but it doesn't help you

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2006-07-18 Thread Michel Talon,,,01 60 15 58 14
have the bikeshed in sky blue pink with yellow dots. -- Michel Talon

Re: Upgrade problem (1.2.x -- 1.3.x)

2005-11-23 Thread Michel Talon
to multiuser will work and allow to do it a second time. -- Michel Talon

Re: Interesting ubench scores for FreeBSD 4.11, 5.4, 6.0beta3 and DFly-Preview

2005-09-04 Thread Michel Talon
Kris Kennaway wrote: When using the same binary, the CPU scores are statistically indistinguishable between the different FreeBSD versions. This makes sense since there's little kernel involvment in running userland integer/FP computations. When running the gcc 2.95 binary all versions of

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-18 Thread Michel Talon
Raphaƫl Marmier wrote: This would answer the needs expressed many time in an acceptable compromise: - upgrading an app without breaking another in the process - able to install multiple versions of a package - allow piecemeal upgrades - allow updating a single package - you can have several

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-17 Thread Michel Talon
Garance A Drosihn wrote: I have had very good luck with portupgrade, on multiple freebsd systems on multiple platforms. I do avoid the biggies like KDE or Gnome, which obviously helps. Since half the ports i have on my machine, if not 3/4 require one or the other of Gnome libraries,