Re: Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-05-02 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2 May 2013, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > am i wrong or we are a bit short in terms of proposals ? We're not doing badly at the moment (I think we are about where we were at this time last year), but more proposals are certainly welcome! Many students seem to submit at the last moment unfortuna

Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-05-02 Thread Gavin Atkinson
Hi all, A reminder: The deadline for applications is 19:00 UTC Friday May 3rd (tomorrow). FreeBSD is pleased to announce that once again we have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This gives University students the opportunity to earn a $5000 USD stipend in exchan

FreeBSD is participating in Google Summer of Code

2013-04-22 Thread Gavin Atkinson
Hi all, FreeBSD is pleased to announce that once again we have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This gives University students the opportunity to earn a $5000 USD stipend in exchange for working on Open Source software over their Summer break. Students have

Re: heci: a new driver for review and testing

2009-11-10 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 10/11/2009 13:54 Andriy Gapon said the following: on 09/11/2009 22:34 Gavin Atkinson said the following: Secondly, I get a panic on module unlaod. I haven't spent any time looking at this, if you haven't fixed it yet let me know and I&#x

Re: heci: a new driver for review and testing

2009-11-09 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote: Some time ago I posted some ideas about HECI/MEI driver for FreeBSD: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4968E9A1.3080006 I actually got around to implementing it (in initial/basic form): http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/heci.tgz Nice! I've got the follo

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 10:04 +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > Hi, > There seems to be some serious degradation in performance. > Under 7.0 I get about 90 MB/s (on write), while, on the same machine > under 7.1 it drops to 20! > Any ideas? The scheduler has been changed to ULE, and NFS has histor

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-03 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:23 -0700, Rob Lytle wrote: > Hi All, > > My depressing analysis- YMMV. I've used FreeBSD since 1998. > > 1..Installing the packages off of the menu on the 3 CDROMs is an incredibly > tedious miserable process. I had to switch out the CD's around 40 times. > If you don't