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  1. jackp

    FreeBSD on POWER8

    A cloud-service provider called RunAbove (an offshoot of OVH) recently launched a new service with POWER8-based compute instances. The only operating systems supported so far are Fedora 19 and Ubuntu 14.04. I've suggested an idea to support FreeBSD for their POWER8 instances, please consider...
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    ARM server chip from AMD

    I'm hoping the FreeBSD Foundation will look into getting one of the dev kits and sponsoring an arm64 port: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47465 This hardware looks very promising and targets many of the same niches that FreeBSD targets -- it'd be natural to put them together.
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    Solved [Solved] New FreeBSD book is coming

    @@bsdkeith -- Those books are not meant to be free: the site you linked to is a site for pirated e-books. Those books (and a number of other books about FreeBSD and OpenBSD) are available from No Starch Press: http://www.nostarch.com/catalog/linuxbsdunix Please consider supporting the authors...
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    FreeBSD on AMD's arm64 chips?

    Is the FreeBSD Foundation planning to acquire one of the newly-available dev kits for AMD's arm64 (armv8) chips (codenamed "Seattle")? They're a bit pricier ($3000) than I thought they'd be, but there's a lot of interest in these machines (e.g., for web servers) so it'd be nice to have FreeBSD...
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    FreeBSD 9.2 stability question

    If you don't get a response here soon, you might have better luck posting this to the `FreeBSD-stable` mailing list.
  6. jackp

    Hyper-V and FreeBSD

    Now that those little driver bugs have been fixed -- has anyone tried spinning up a FreeBSD 10 VM on Azure yet?
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    FreeBSD discussion on HN

    Discussion about the release of FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6387080
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    BSD Q&A site

    There's already a UNIX and Linux Stack Exchange site which has a decent amount of traffic, and already has some good questions/answers for various BSDs (FreeBSD, BSD, POSIX, pf). IMO, it'd be better (and easier) to promote the use of that site rather than starting a new one. I think the...
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    Utilite, a $99 quad-core ARM-based PC running Ubuntu

    The company has since set up some discussion forums: http://www.utilite-computer.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=56. (There's a "wish-list" section, if you want to ask about FreeBSD support.) They're also going to produce "developer kits" for open-source developers -- this could also be a way to get...
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    Hyper-V and FreeBSD

    Thanks @grehan@! I'm also looking forward to reading the guide.
  11. jackp

    Nothing can go wrong

    You should point them to this post: F# on FreeBSD ;)
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    Nothing can go wrong

    .NET developer here. IMO, Windows and/or .NET aren't to blame -- it's more likely the franchising company outsourced the development to the cheapest (read: least competent) developers possible, then pushed them to finish it in an unrealistically short timeframe. Glad to hear they got it fixed...
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    Error when compiling Mono DTrace probes (mono.d)

    Mono supports DTrace on OS X and Solaris, so I thought it would be nice to have it working on FreeBSD as well. I made a few minor changes to the configuration script (actually, the 'patch-configure' file in the port) to enable the DTrace support, but when I tried to build Mono again the...
  14. jackp

    Funds flow into FreeBSD

    This article provoked some good discussions on news sites too: HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5638402 Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1dhpzo/freebsd_expands_activities_as_funds_flow_in/ Both sites also had good discussions about the OpenBSD 5.3 release which ran...
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    Cubieboard

    There's already a Cubieboard topic open in the Embedded subforum: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38243
  16. jackp

    Why FreeBSD team does not accept bitcoin donations?

    It's a reasonable suggestion. I don't think it'd be much work to set up a wallet for donations (though I don't use Bitcoin, so maybe someone else can chime in there). In addition to raising some additional funding for new projects, setting up a Bitcoin wallet for donations would also be a good...
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    Some guys say: "FreeBSD's pkgng: A broken fork of Debian's a

    Well said. There is a good deal of evidence for this trend of permissive licensing, but it seems some people have bought-in to the GPL too deeply to notice. Quantifying the shift toward permissive licensing On the continuing decline of the GPL (via Hacker News)
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    FreeBSD Instructional Videos

    Awesome! These look really good, and having detailed videos like these are great for helping people make the jump to FreeBSD.
  19. jackp

    Add links to Reddit and blog aggregators

    As a follow up to my earlier post about adding a link to the UNIX StackExchange -- I was browsing around on Reddit this morning and stumbled across some BSD-related subreddits: /r/BSD /r/FreeBSD Perhaps these could be added under the 'Community' header at the top of the website? It would...
  20. jackp

    How to compile Objective-C in FreeBSD

    I was looking at @dinoex's solution here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=167049#post167049 and noticed that you've edited /etc/src.conf -- this file controls the options for building the FreeBSD source tree (e.g., the kernel). The "normal" compilation options are set in...
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