FreeBSD

It’s our pleasure to see GCC 3.4 import to be listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list. Unfortunatelly, gmake is now a required prerequisite when building GCC 3.4, this may slow down the import progress.

With more and more aaazzz’s received on beastie.frontfree.net, it makes me to seriously consider the possiblity to set up a set of early filter on postfix.

Today Tom Rhodes (trhodes@) has committed a massive patch against FreeBSD-HEAD, allowing Intel C/C++ Compiler to build kernel. This change should not change the current gcc based build infrasture.

MP3Blaster is a console MP3 player running under FreeBSD. As a part of my evil plan, it has been installed on the computer at lab :-)

As some of you may know, I am planning to buy a server with some friends and take it in an IDC by the time I will be graduated from the university. The server will be primarily do personal web, ftp hosting, as well as mail service and DNS service.

Don Lewis (truckman@) has committed a fix for the sysctl spinning problem I mentioned here some days before. Currently, beastie.frontfree.net is running a workaround which made it possible to skip the deadlock, however, will not guarantee the correct result.

Well, the story has end, beastie.frontfree.net ends its life because an overheat caused by mechanism fault of its fan on CPU and power supply. The hardware components were then replaced with some new ones.

Several servers I manage running FreeBSD 5-CURRENT as of 20040228 appears to bearing wierd deadlocks, which could be triggered by ps(1), top(1) and w(1).

junsu and I have discussed about some big hacks to FreeBSD kernel, and the implementation of a minidump is a good idea, I think.

On Windows there’s a minidump mechanism. The minidump will save ‘crashing’ pages only, while full dump will save the whole core memory when the system going to crash.

It’s the latest NetBSD stable RELEASE. This version is dedicated to Erik Reid, a NetBSD developer who contributed many MIPS related port efforts, as well as the XFree86 DRI interface, and were dead in an sailing accident in February 18, 2004.