Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction

2013-05-25 Thread Matt Olander
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > I heard there was some discussion at BSDCan about the direction of a future > FreeBSD installer. Considering we currently have bsdinstall, pc-sysinstall, > and an effort to revive sysinstall, I'd be interested to know what was > decided (i

Re: GSoC: PKGNG GUI Proposal Available for Review

2013-05-03 Thread Matt Olander
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Kris Moore wrote: > On 05/03/2013 04:33, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> good for today and future ladmins that cannot type a command. >> >> Any USEFUL proposals that add some real functionality? >> > > Since this will enable more people to run FreeBSD that otherwise > wo

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-12 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:52 PM, John Kozubik wrote: >> >> Hi Matt, >> >> >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Matt Olander wrote: >> >>> So, we've (iXsystems, PC-BSD) been kicking around the idea o

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-12 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:52 PM, John Kozubik wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Matt Olander wrote: > >> So, we've (iXsystems, PC-BSD) been kicking around the idea of a Long >> Term Supported version of "PC-BSD Server", which is rea

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-12 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:40 AM, John Kozubik wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > I am looking at the upcoming release schedule, and I only see 9.1 listed - can anyone confirm or deny 8.4 ? >>> >>> >>> Although I am not on re@, AFAIK the only schedule that is on th

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > I've suggested this before without much response, but since this thread > seems to be encouraging repetition I'll give it another go.  ;) > > I think a bounty system would be very effective(e.g. micro-donations of > recent political campai

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Blackman wrote: > On 17 Jan 2012, at 21:09, Warner Losh wrote: > >> >> On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:12 AM, John Kozubik wrote: >>> Again, I'm not suggesting more snapshots - I am suggesting more real, bona >>> fide releases.  This will help people. >> >> I tend to

Re: Capsicum project: Ideas needed

2011-07-07 Thread Matt Olander
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Ilya Bakulin wrote: > Hi hackers, > As a part of ongoing effort to enhance usage of Capsicum in FreeBSD base > system, I want to ask you, which applications in the base system should > receive sandboxing support. > So far, the following applications were sandboxed d

Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Matt Olander
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> I am curious about posting some coding bounties, my current interest >> revolves around improving the ZVOL functionality in FreeBSD: fixing >> the known ZVOL SWAP reliability/stability problems as well as maki

Re: FreeBSD jobs

2009-05-14 Thread Matt Olander
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Julian Stacey wrote: > Hi hackers@ > A commercial firm asked for _Free_ labour today on j...@freebsd. > The censors passed it.  Censors of j...@freebsd.org then blocked > the posting below.  jobs@ censors again bad, block wrong things, > should all be removed & not

VirtualBox on FreeBSD

2009-05-04 Thread Matt Olander
Looks like the VirtualBox developers at Sun ported VirtualBox to FreeBSD in their spare time: http://www.freebsdnews.net/2009/05/02/sun-virtualbox-on-freebsd/ They're looking for developers/testers to checkout the source and try it out :-) -matt

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-30 Thread Matt Olander
On Jul 30, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: Matt Olander wrote: http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html Hi everyone! I actually had our prototype of this laptop up at the OSCON show in Portland and it was pretty well received. Everything works for the most part although

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-29 Thread Matt Olander
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Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Olander
am desperate to view on Hulu! ;-) I think my latest Rosetta Stone is Flash9 now too :'( -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.F

Re: VirtualBox?

2007-09-04 Thread Matt Olander
out source and start porting!" A few of their devs hang out in #vbox-dev on Freenode. This would be an excellent port for FreeBSD. best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source"  http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project         http:

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Matt Olander
I have word when we're getting one and if we can keep it, we'll send it up to be included in the cluster in Canada. Yay!!! This is just fabulous. -matt > > Kris -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations,