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What’s New in FreeBSD 7.0

Babak Farrokhi — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:03:14 +0000

I came across this interesting article about upcoming FreeBSD 7 that outlines some of the most important changes in this release.

The upcoming release of FreeBSD 7 is a major milestone for all FreeBSD developers and users. It is the most amazing release I have ever had the chance to play with. There are plenty of new features and many improvements, especially in networking (which is my area of interest).
I have had this chance to play with MySQL 5.1 running on FreeBSD 7 on top of 8 cores of Xeon processor in 64-bit mode. My impression was that it was almost as fast as kris’s benchmarks and totally kicked linux 2.6 in threading and SMP performance.

This is something I expected to see in FreeBSD 6. However FreeBSD seems to be catching up with linux again.

Depenguinator, A great tool for the Linux enthusiasts

Babak Farrokhi — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:24:14 +0000

Colin Percival (The original author of freebsd-update and binary diff), spent a few hours to resurrect the dead Depenguinator from ashes.
Using Depenguinator 2.0, you can remotely upgrade a happily living Linux system to the latest version of FreeBSD. To me its extremely useful when upgrading a Linux box to FreeBSD in a hosting facility that does not offer any FreeBSD servers.

The project needs help from community to test and report issues back to the developer in order to improve the software. However it is worth giving a try on your Ubuntu box.

On a related note, I was thinking of porting this into the package repository of various Linux distributions.

uniXified.net

Babak Farrokhi — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:50:46 +0000

Yes, I was too serious about uniXified.net. You can see how frequently I am updating it. Currently it is mostly related to my FreeBSD porting activities. But I will add some Solaris related stuff as well.

FreeBSD Project Launches New Website

Babak Farrokhi — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:06:09 +0000

They have been using the same template for almost 10 years. Now the new website looks modern and professional. However, not all pages was updated (including search page template).

I really liked the new design.

Update: Announcement from Murray Stokely

SysAdmin Day

Babak Farrokhi — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:16:40 +0000

Don’t miss this year’s SysAdmin day. ( Celebrated annually on last Friday of July )

Open Letter

Babak Farrokhi — Tue, 18 May 2004 19:44:19 +0000

I have an idea:

Lets write an open letter to Eric S. Raymond and ask him to stop writing open letters!

He spends too much time writing open letters and thinks everything in world should be open source. Read his latest art work here: If only Cisco code had been open source

Sorry pal, world doesn’t work like that!

IranPerl website

Babak Farrokhi — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:55:53 +0000

After mailing lists, the IranPerl.com website is up and running. It is powered by Xoops and running on FreeBSD.

It is not pretty yet, I need to put up some logo, change the color scheme and apply proper patches to support persian language. But at least its up! Forums and News sections are operational.

Please register and start asking questions/ answering others questions and posting links and articles. I know you folks are very busy and its not that easy, but I try to be the first and will keep things dynamic.

Please subscribe to the mailing lists for announcements and other stuff and keep visiting the website.

Hosting Reliability

Babak Farrokhi — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:51:20 +0000

FreeBSD advocates will be pleased to hear this:

Seven of the top nine sites run on FreeBSD. The exceptions are Datapipe, which is doing a fine job of promoting the reliability of Windows 2003, and German hosting company komplex.net which runs on Linux.

Source: Netcraft report