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Comment Re:no, they havent. (Score 1) 123

by IAR80 on Thursday December 10, 2009 @05:33AM (#30386098) Attached to: A Critical Look At Open Licensing For Hardware

A mass spectrometer will give you the exact alloy composition of your car's cylinder or gearbox. If someone does this and makes the information publicly available then you don't even have to do it yourself.

FreeBSD 8.0 Released 235

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 26, 2009 @03:19PM from the to-be-thankful dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage — a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5. There is also an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes in FreeBSD 8.0, including a screenshot tour, upgrade instructions are posted here. You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread the word by tweeting and blogging about the drive and release."

Comment Re:Just now? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @03:17PM (#28029639) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

Slackware was always famous for slow release cycles and stability as well. As for 64bit distros it is still hard to find a real use for them. At least in my environment.

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @03:15PM (#28029619) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

SLS was not arround that long and it was rather buggy. Actualy both Debian and Slackware got born because their creators got fedup with SLS.

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @03:12PM (#28029575) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

Correct. MCC Interim Linux was the first linux distro.

Comment Re:64bit only DVD's? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:53PM (#28029301) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

No digital cameras then. :) I remember it was a shopping bag full of them. Unfortunatelly not the most reliable medium. I still have vivid memories from the strugle.

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 2, Insightful) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:48PM (#28029223) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

From Gentoo to Suse! Ouch. My path was Slackware -> FreeBSD -> Gentoo and never got tired of compiling. Such is Unix.

Comment Re:Original anouncement (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:46PM (#28029179) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

I used to run that on a 386DX33 with 4MB of RAM. And I was fortunate I had a friend who had to run it on 2MB. Try that nowadays. When I got money for 8MB Xwindows started flying even using Openlook.

Comment Original anouncement (Score 2, Informative) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:44PM (#28029145) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:41PM (#28029113) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

Yep! Best learning distro ever. Actualy the first linux distro.

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:40PM (#28029093) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

I found in 2004 a slackware 3.6 mail server which I instaled back in 1998. It hasn't been rebooted since. Almost 6 years uptime and over the 2000 day mark.

Comment Re:64bit only DVD's? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:37PM (#28029039) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

First one I installed it was 40 something floppy drives and it took me quite a few hours. That was back in 93. Nowadays you install everything off a usb stick in minutes. Sort of spoils the whole adventure.

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 3, Insightful) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:34PM (#28029001) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

If you want a linux engineer to fix things up for you pick a Slackware user not an Ubuntu one.

Comment Re:Glad to here. (Score 2, Funny) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:31PM (#28028979) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

First distro I ever used. And I kept using it until 2002. It warped me for good on the BSD file layout. Now I can only use Gentoo because of that. :)

Comment Re:Will this help? (Score 1) 259

by IAR80 on Thursday May 14, 2009 @05:28AM (#27948863) Attached to: Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine"

Me neither, but I am strongly advocating for the reduction of our impact on the environment. Otherwise we will cull ourselves by famine, due to destruction of fertile land, disease, caused by pollution lack of water supply and ultimately genocide. WAIT! We are already doing that! http://www.library.utoronto.ca/pcs/eps/rwanda/rwanda1.htm

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