FreeBSD

The hardware of beastie.frontfree.net (this machine) seemed to be endsuring some problem. Today, I have completed several improvements to mitigate this situation.

Several commits must be done on FreeBSDChina’s doc tree,
Many commits must be done in the local Frontfree tree,
And the GridDistribute,
as well as mathmetics.

When is the end, and when is the start?
What will happen, if I want to have a rest?
While this is something to be similiar with what happend in the past,
I am supposed to have some busy days…

As a result of recent changes on the Frontfree Reverse Proxy Server, the server signature has been changed from “Apache 2.0.48 on FreeBSD” to “IIS 6.0 on FreeBSD”.

I’m not concerned about the disclosure of what server I am using because it acts nothing when we call IIS a “Apache”, well, I think it’s silly to do things like that, but, well, a IIS running on FreeBSD is somewhat not normal on others’ sight.

Dag-Erling Smørgrav has posted a discussion on FreeBSD-arch (I have to use a outside link instead of FreeBSD’s own mailing list archive, because it didn’t updated from 2004-01-26 for unknown reason), accroding to this post, we see a need of running init(8) in jails, which allows us to terminate a jail cleanly.

I was asked this question in many scenarios. Well, here’s the answer. This blob does not intend to have a compare between GPL and BSDL, which is extensively discussed in many places, and basically, GPLers and BSDers all have what the counterpart could not accept.

Daniel Eischen today committed a new patch and this will make KSE default threading library on FreeBSD!

I have installed these code on my test box. Well… an automated patch mechanism would be better but the current approach is just ok.

As Che Dong suggested, we will have a new forum that provides a blog style view, which will hopefully attract more visitors. I believed that this is a Good Idea(TM), even while it has some slight difference (seriously, conflicits) with my original design, but I’d adopt this idea, because it’s simply better :)

呵呵，实在不知道闹鬼这个词怎么能够贴切地用英文表达，所以，还是老老实实用中文吧，so if you don’t understand Chinese, I can’t share this blob with you, just learn Chinese like what I did with English :-)

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.