Tag Archives: UNIX

UNIX history

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Oliver Herold

Ken Thompson und Dennis Ritchie plaudern aus dem «Nähkästchen» …

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FreeBSD 8.1 RC1

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Oliver Herold

So ganz still und leise hat just der erste RC von FreeBSD 8.1 das Licht der Welt erblickt und die Builds für die einzelnen Architekturen finden sich auch schon auf den Mirrors. Mehr dazu erfährt man in Ken Smiths Ankündigung. … Continue reading →

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UNIX — live free or die

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Oliver Herold

Danke an The Open Group, das heißbegehrte Schild kam heute morgen an :-)

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RIP Sun

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Oliver Herold

via Duke Images Buy a mug or a shirt and remember the good old times :-)

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nerds at the bar

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Oliver Herold

… ein echter Bulo :-]

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FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 auf dem EEE

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Just erschienen und schon auf dem Kleinsten installiert, funktioniert bisher tadellos mal abgesehen von einem Reset im Zusammenhang mit if_ath. Bis dato konnte ich diesen Fehler (reset HAL) nicht reproduzieren und auch unter Last brach der EEE nicht zusammen. Wenn … Continue reading →

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a new FreeBSD Portmgr is born

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Martin Wilke has been one of our active committers since receiving his commit bit today 3 years ago. He has been working in a number of subgroups including python, ports-security and the KDE team. FreeBSD ML Congrats to Miwi aka Martin Wilke. The … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris, Linux …

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Oliver Herold

Ah well, no rant — at least this time ;-) Just some «hey there is some news about it». They just released OpenSolaris 2009.06 and grml 2009.05, aka Lackdose-Allergie, is out in the wild. I’m just downloading the latter and … Continue reading →

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ZFS v13 in FreeBSD 7 stable

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Oliver Herold

In case you missed the mfc: ZFS v13 in 7-STABLE. This means a major advance for FreeBSD 7 users in terms of quality and reliabilty. And if I’m correct you don’t even need tunables anymore, at least while using AMD64. Well, this … Continue reading →

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scrypt — a new key derivation function

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Oliver Herold

In the context of hardware brute-force attacks, scrypt is thousands of times more secure than existing «best practice» solutions such as bcrypt and PBKDF2; in fact, under reasonable assumptions it is provably as strong as possible. In addition to the … Continue reading →

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