Kernel

It’s important to have a scientific view when doing any benchmarks. Today, phk and Robert Watson has posted several hints to the -current list.

John Baldwin has committed a set of patches to Floppy disk generation and removed some legacy generation scripts. The new generation process makes use of splitfs, and there’s a drawback - All pieces of the splitted filesystem must be available when the fs is used.

It’s apparantly that 5.2-RELEASE need some real fixes from -HEAD. Today, several commits took place in FreeBSD’s RELENG_5_2, and Bruce A. Mah has announced a new doc/ slush plan.

As planned, Jeff Roberson has made ULE scheduler the default for FreeBSD’s CVS -HEAD. This is an important step going forward to 5-STABLE.

junsu has pointed a cool article to me. This article described a Linux kernel debugger, KDB, which seems to be useful even for reference on other kernel debugging issues.

FreeBSDChina社区最近采访了徐逸锋(David XU)，一位来自中国大陆的FreeBSD src committer。徐逸锋先生在FreeBSD KSE项目中做出了相当多的贡献，在这次访谈中，他谈到了关于自己参加FreeBSD开发的一些经历、KSE、SMPng以及关于FreeBSD的一些其他事情。我们非常感谢徐先生接受我们的采访，也希望这次访谈能够帮助大家进一步了解FreeBSD。

李鑫(以下简称「李」)：可否请简要介绍一下关于您的一些基本情况？
徐逸锋(以下简称「徐」)：我是浙江绍兴人，现年35岁，大学毕业后工作过好几个地方，现住在杭州，已婚。

李：是什么促使您参与到FreeBSD的开发中的呢？
徐：我在成为FreeBSD src committer以前，一直在使用FreeBSD, 并且对FreeBSD的POSIX thread(PThread)支持不满意，一直希望有一个性能更好的PThread支持，在2002年，我有幸与Julian Elischer在将FreeBSD内核线程化上做了大量的交流工作，Julian Elischer非常友好地帮助我成为src committer.

Microsoft has recently released SFU 3.5 for free download. This is an amazing product because it also enables running Unix programs under Windows natively.

A new MSDN article has said the following:

WinFS is the new storage system in Longhorn. It improves the Microsoft Windows platform in three ways. First, it allows you to categorize your information in multiple ways and relate one item of information to another. Second, it provides a common storage format for information collected on an everyday basis, such as information dealing with people, places, images, and more. Third, it promotes data sharing of common information across multiple applications from multiple vendors.

Recently there were several important developments taken place in DragonflyBSD.

We saw:

John has published a new patch:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_sci2.patch