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Faster boot times on Nehalem systems

2011-06-23 Felix Ehlers

FreeBSD boots painfully slow on new servers with Intels Nehalem chipsets. You don’t want to wait 180 seconds and more? Here’s the solution.

Haiku gets eight studens for GSoC 2011

2011-04-28 Felix Ehlers

Haiku have been allocated eight students for this years Google Summer of Code program. Overall, 417 mentoring organizations applied and 3731 students submitted 5474 proposals. Haiku is proud to be one of 175 accepted mentoring organizations, with 35 submitted proposals and 8 accepted students!

DragonFly BSD 2.10 released

2011-04-27 Felix Ehlers

The 2.10 release supports, thanks to updates of ACPI and APIC interrupt routing support, a much larger variety of hardware and multiprocessor systems than previous releases.

Nginx 1.0 released

2011-04-13 Felix Ehlers

After nine years of development nginx reaches version 1.0.0 which is now the latest stable version and ready for production. Version 0.8.54 is now the newest legacy stable version.

Enable screen sharing via ssh on Snow Leopard

2011-03-14 Felix Ehlers

Imagine the following scenario: You can’t connect with VNC to your iMac/Mac Mini that runs Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The Screen Sharing service is not enabled. Anyway Remote Login via ssh is available. What can you do?