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
smoothly. To my knowledge OpenBSD is the only BSD which has a working update mechanism, fully integrated. I have written something experimental for FreeBSD: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkgupgrade because i think there is no future for an OS without a binary packages management system

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

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-18 Thread talon
a lot about the usefulness or the necessity of these concepts. -- Michel Talon

Re: using swap on a separate slice

2006-12-23 Thread talon
concrete reports that one can install FreeBSD completely on logical partitions (that is even /boot/loader supports that), and i am quite sure that DragonFly supports it as well. So there is no problem with lack of free primary partitions to install these systems. -- Michel Talon

Re: Website change plans

2006-11-09 Thread talon
the cursor becomes very jerky) There's nothing very complex happening here; I suspect there's something odd with your video, perhaps? Can someone else with KDE installed confirm this? I have KDE installed here, i see nothing particular with Konqueror. -- Michel Talon

Re: KDE and SSL still not working

2006-10-08 Thread talon
for me this was the cause for SSL not working in KDE under FreeBSD. Remove this ssl-devel, this makes no difference for OpenOffice, and KDE suddenly works OK. -- Michel Talon

Re: KDE and OpenSSL = Broken

2006-09-09 Thread talon
(required by OpenOffice) the ssl support in KDE breaks applications coredump, etc. Remove ssl-beta and everything works well again. -- Michel Talon

Re: shutdown on BSD and Linux

2006-09-09 Thread talon
the same time as FreeBSD to boot, faster than the Linux distro i had previously (Debian Sarge). Rahul -- Michel Talon

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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: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

2006-06-14 Thread talon
of security flaws. As you sure know, NetBSD has decided to remove sendmail from the base system and replace it by postfix. -- Michel Talon

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

2006-06-14 Thread talon
hub and went into our sysadm mail box. The solution is here in the postfix faq http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#some_local I am sure there are a number of similar small differences which preclude simply turning a knob in rc.conf. -- Michel Talon

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

2006-06-14 Thread talon
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Re: BootBlocks.

2006-06-03 Thread talon
the Ubuntu installer and the BSDinstaller, and come back after. From my own judgement it is slightly better than freebsd sysinstall on some points and worse on others, and light years behind most decent Linux installers (Mandrake, Fedora, etc.). -- Michel Talon

RE: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-06-02 Thread talon
cores or more, than commodity machines used to do the job of dedicated hardware. And yes, as Kris said, jemalloc works well at present on FreeBSD. -- Michel Talon

Re: Newbie scsi question

2006-05-04 Thread talon
. Schilling! Not to comment about the capacities of FreeBSD developers as seen from his majesty perspective. -- Michel Talon

Re: Would DF welcome a phpbb forum?

2006-01-16 Thread talon
, and then KDE, Gnome etc. Presumably the developers are busy solving important and hard problems at the moment, so being user friendly is not a big priority. -- Michel Talon

Re: DP performance

2005-12-02 Thread talon
. Finally let me congratulate Matt for his work and hope best chance of success. -- 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,