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I do work in academia and what fits my needs arguably doesn't fit the needs of most casual computer users. In mathematics/applied-math, physics, astronomy (all subjects I worked) since circa 1982 papers are written using TeX. My papers are edited using nvi. I also run a rather large computing...

As a hard core OpenBSD user (I use FreeBSD only at work for ZFS file servers and Jails) nothing makes me more worm and fuzzy than the posts like these. It an indicator that for foreseeable future OpenBSD will remain no nonsense community of highly skilled professionals and serious hobbyists. I...

Internal Modem's were Windows only modems. Assuming you are not trolling you have to find a genuine hardware serial RS-232 modem like this one https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/usr5686g/ Those modems that you can purchase now typically don't come with RS-232 port...

I respectfully disagree with you. FreeBSD has being already forked once in June 2003 by Matthew Dillon. As much as I love DragonFly and Matt as a programmer and a person the fork has never gained as much traction as originally thought. Quite on the contrary it seems that it peaked 2004-2006 and...

In my understanding fork has happened out of Shawn Web's frustration to get his ASLR into the FreeBSD proper. (Disclaimer Shawn and I had a lunch once and we didn't talk about politics at all. Whatever you read here are my own words). The same forces which prevented ASLR code in FreeBSD proper...

Not following your post. Bhyve is full virtualization. An example of pure hypervisor would be Xen. Xen 4.9 introduces a Xen transport for 9pfs so there is no need for clunky NFS. FreeBSD jails have nullfs The guy wants something similar for Bhyve. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Sharing a common...

IPFW since you listed PF although PF is the default firewall of OS X, Solaris (before untimely death) so it is really different thing. Junoos (customized FreeBSD) is using IPFilter IIRC. The last thing which came out of FreeBSD camp was ULE scheduler...

Personally I read "the best" in your post as beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Apart of IPTables which is bastardized child of FreeBSD's IPFW there is nothing in Linux I can think of which comes from the FreeBSD. Actually there is almost nothing in FreeBSD which comes from FreeBSD in the...

I hate to respond to this old thread. I stumbled by looking at developer11 posts as he seems to be bragging about using FreeBSD to run the business. I respectfully see the contradiction in this answer. Ports and packages are not the same! If the FreeBSD ports tree was designed for reproducible...

My brain must not be functioning well today. What is exactly your story? The only thing I was able to learn was that you guys spent 4 million U.S. dollars on a new facility in TX and 100 ProLiant servers which run FreeBSD. I am really curious what those servers are doing. Are you VPS provider...

If the devices you are trying to write drivers for were documented somebody would have already written a driver. They are likely closed hardware. Short of you getting a PhD in reverse engineering you have no chance to write a driver even if you had know-how which you obviously don't have based...

That is not CAS (symbolic computational) problem! That is numerical analysis problem. No I am not trained as a numerical analyst. I am trained in Dynamical Systems and work with Math Physics and AI/Big Data. You should look at BLAS, ATLAS, LAPACK, and such to understand how is implemented or if...

Your patience to explain to clueless and uneducated never cease to amaze me :) +1 Writing a Lisp program for something as simple as automatics differentiation and integration would be a fair semester long project question for a bright undergraduate math student. Implementing something like...

+1 How people even come up with such a random bullshit questions? Macsyma started as a research project assigned to a few grad students at MIT in 1968. During my math career I meet few of early contributors during their sunset years. Today there are whole mathematical journals devoted to this...

Match in what? RHEL and derivatives use XFS. Ubuntu is using EXT2 for root and is aggressively adopting ZFS. EXT4 until recently could not hold more than 16 TB of data. My ZFS pools these days are routinely close to 100TB

I am seeking a tape drive recommendation. The drive will be used for off site backups of a very small ZFS pool (configured as 4 TB ZFS mirror but currently less than 100GB of data). I am looking something inexpensive but reliable internal or external it doesn't really matter to me. Just like in...

To be frank with you from where I am sitting a properly implemented delete functionality would be much more desirable than "undelete" BS OP is asking about. Let me explain. ralphbsz will correct me but my understanding that rm command on the ext2 file system just removes inode numbers. I find...

OS X had a long standing more than 10 years NFS client bug which was almost show stopper but IIRC it is fixed few years ago. On the another hand Apple phased out its own Apple File Protocol (AFS for short and not to be mistaken with Andrew File System which uses the same acronym) in favour of...

Echofish of course https://echothrust.github.io/echofish/ if you want to go the that route but IMHO you are doing everything wrong. Where to begin? Firstly rsyslog is Linux login daemon which should not be used on other OSs. Personally I run syslog-ng server but for small installations...

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