Sorry, some additional info and questions: Box is a Dell Poweredge T30 with 2x1T drives (for now)
Should I pick HAMMER or HAMMER2 (installer seems to suggest HAMMER) and should I use Dell's onboard RAID 0 or AHCI? I'm doing a trial install now with HAMMER2, AHCI... I used NetBSD (and Free and still running OpenBSD on various boxes) for a while years ago so the basics are somewhat familiar. I'm sure HAMMER/2 is totally new and great :) Thanks again, /jl On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 08:04 +0000, John Long wrote: > Hi, > > I have some miscellaneous questions on the way to finding a new > desktop > OS. Thanks to anybody who would help with this: > > Acrobat reader: I have a lot of manuals in .pdf format and I haven't > found anything I can tolerate other than acroread. I'm not saying > there > isn't anything good, I just haven't seen it. I don't need forms > support > or change tracking or any fancy stuff. I want 2-up display and I need > internal links to work. I also have a bunch of .djvu but the djview > reader is mostly ok. > > Computer languages: Are Fortran and Ada available? I looked in the > dports directory at UK Mirror Service and I didn't find any of the > common names (gfortran, gcc-ada, gnat (the language, not the bug > tracker)). > > Virtualization: Is there a way to run Linux in a VM? > > HAMMER2: Is it possible to set up a root mirror in the installer and > if > not can I add a disk to mirror the root after installing? I don't > know > anything about HAMMER/HAMMER2 but I use ZFS on Solaris and I am > hoping > to get some of the same management features with HAMMER2, mostly the > stuff about filesystems taking only the space they need, and having > good software mirroring that makes it easy to pull out a bad drive, > swap in a new one, and everything works with no data loss. > > Are web browsers like Opera and Chrome available? Don't get me wrong, > I > hate google bitterly, but Chrome's translation feature is handy when > it > works. I like Opera's UI but I can live with Firefox. > > Is the JFS filesystem supported? I have a bunch of external drives > using JFS. > > Thanks, > > /jl > > > >
