Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. then: * test out pkgng on FreeBSD-9.x and provide as much feedback as you can; * help test out massive deployment, upgrade and auditing scenarios - exactly the kinds of things which cloud using people need. Installing 1 boxes is difficult. Auditing, upgrading and integrating services on 10,

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-21 Thread Alex Moura
2012/5/21 Jamie > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:57:33AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > > No, they're not. VMWare, RHEV (KVM-based) etc. provide features such as > > seamless migration of virtual machines from one physical machine to > > another, automatic restart on a different physical serve

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-21 Thread Jamie
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:57:33AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > No, they're not. VMWare, RHEV (KVM-based) etc. provide features such as > seamless migration of virtual machines from one physical machine to > another, automatic restart on a different physical server if one fails > etc. that

RE: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-21 Thread Oleg Moskalenko
> -Original Message- > From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [mailto:d...@des.no] > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 9:48 AM > To: Oleg Moskalenko > Cc: Jamie; Vincent Hoffman; Vance Siemens; Rick Macklem; freebsd- > c...@freebsd.org; freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeB

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Oleg Moskalenko writes: > Modern large-scale virtualization technologies are based upon > bare-metal versions of VMWare and XenServer. They are not Linux and > they are not FreeBSD AFAIK, RHEV is KVM on top of RHEL. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no __

RE: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-21 Thread Oleg Moskalenko
> c...@freebsd.org; freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication... > > Jamie writes: > > Jails are usually more suited to "cloud work" than KVM or the latest > > OpenVZ/Containers/??? of the linux world ever will be... > > No, th

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Jamie writes: > Jails are usually more suited to "cloud work" than KVM or the latest > OpenVZ/Containers/??? of the linux world ever will be... No, they're not. VMWare, RHEV (KVM-based) etc. provide features such as seamless migration of virtual machines from one physical machine to another, aut

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-20 Thread Jamie
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 04:42:12PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > Well, I worked for a computer science dept. for 30years and it seemed > to go something like this: > - Undergrad installs "toy" version of Linux on their desktop/laptop, > likes it and promotes it to their friends. > - When these stu

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-20 Thread Diane Bruce
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 04:42:12PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > Jamie wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:20:18PM -0400, Vance Siemens wrote: > > > Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from ... > Well, I worked for a computer science dept. for 30years and it seemed > to

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-20 Thread Rick Macklem
Jamie wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:20:18PM -0400, Vance Siemens wrote: > > Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from > > the App Store and having the installer "just work" in a modern GUI. > > You have to admit, FreeBSD is lacking in this area. It would be a > > bo

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-20 Thread Vance Siemens
Maybe there is some truth to this. FreeBSD uses use clang, Apple's compiler, since FreeBSD 9: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-May/067486.html. On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On 5/12/2012 6:25 AM, Vance Siemens wrote: >> >> Can you share a brief ove

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-20 Thread Jamie
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:20:18PM -0400, Vance Siemens wrote: > Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from > the App Store and having the installer "just work" in a modern GUI. > You have to admit, FreeBSD is lacking in this area. It would be a > boon. Personally, I woul

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Arlen Cuss writes: > "Troll" *is* right there in the name! Yes, thank you, we hadn't noticed. Good thing you were there to set us straight. Oh, and please learn to quote. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing

RE: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-18 Thread Oleg Moskalenko
, 2012 8:23 PM To: Vance Siemens Cc: Dag-Erling Smørgrav; freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org; freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Vincent Hoffman Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication... What, 8bit color ANSI isn't GUI enough? But seriously, it feels like it works even worse then it did a decade ago. Rick H

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-17 Thread Arlen Cuss
> > > > > > Umm, it's about as factual as The Onion, except not as funny. FreeBSD > > > never had to "jettison two thirds of its code base and start from > > > scratch". Apple is not involved in FreeBSD development. No Mac OS X or > > > Darwin version "includes" FreeBSD. FreeBSD and Mac OS X will

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-17 Thread Hamell, Rick (SPARQ)
What, 8bit color ANSI isn't GUI enough? But seriously, it feels like it works even worse then it did a decade ago. Rick Hamell Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2012, at 4:20 PM, "Vance Siemens" wrote: > Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from > the App Store and hav

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-17 Thread Vance Siemens
Eh, sorry. I got excited at the prospect of downloading FreeBSD from the App Store and having the installer "just work" in a modern GUI. You have to admit, FreeBSD is lacking in this area. It would be a boon. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Vance Siemens writes: >>

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Vance Siemens writes: > Can you share a brief overview of what's wrong with it? Umm, it's about as factual as The Onion, except not as funny. FreeBSD never had to "jettison two thirds of its code base and start from scratch". Apple is not involved in FreeBSD development. No Mac OS X or Darwin

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vance Siemens writes: > Can you share a brief overview of what's wrong with it? I guess I'm > not as knowledgeable as I thought. The story was quite enticing to me. To quote the Looney Tunes great, Foghorn Leghorn, "It's a joke, son." >From beginning to end.

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-12 Thread Vance Siemens
Can you share a brief overview of what's wrong with it? I guess I'm not as knowledgeable as I thought. The story was quite enticing to me. On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Vincent Hoffman writes: >> Vance Siemens writes: >> > http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/05/freebsd-

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Vincent Hoffman writes: > Vance Siemens writes: > > http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/05/freebsd-x-berkeley-unix-apple-quality.html > I almost laughed but it shows a pretty limited imagination for a site > thats dedicated to trolling. I don't think they're trying to be funny... but it's nothing to

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 03/05/2012 05:31, Vance Siemens wrote: > Can't say that I wouldn't look forward to this, but it sounds a little off: > > http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/05/freebsd-x-berkeley-unix-apple-quality.html > > What do others think? I almost laughed but it shows a pretty limited imagination for a site th