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[ermo]

I am not disputing that.

I run FreeBSD on a toy box to get a better feel for how "traditional unix" works and in that setting,...

[ermo]

(emphasis mine)

Is this for real? Because if so, wow.

Thank you!...

[ermo]

My guess? Corporate risk-averse mindset.

Corporations -- at least those who aren't themselves producing cutting edge network tech and selling...

[ermo]

Nice. I've got an old PhII 1090T system (bare iron toy FreeBSD box w/8GiB DDR2 ECC memory) which will run a single-slot HP OEM HD6570 1GB DDR3 (salvaged...

[ermo]

Time will tell if this move will be considered "too little, too late" or if it turns out that it will assuage customer fears.

The...

[ermo]

At least for FreeBSD, the "jealously guarded by a small cabal" quip seems particularly relevant as it pertains to e.g. hardware sensor drivers;...

[ermo]

As someone who is not really into the Apple ecosystem, is there any chance I could persuade you to offer compelling evidence in support of your claim?...

[ermo]

Out of curiousity, have you benchmarked using lz4 vs. zstd? I assume that there's a reason you're using zstd over lz4 in the first place?

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[ermo]

I have a beef with intel relating to their segmentation strategy.

However, having read the thread, I accept that there might be a power envelope...

[ermo]

I keep a couple of PhenomII CPUs around, one of which is running as my home server because it and its motherboard supports ECC and currently has its RAM...