The new version brings ULE as the default scheduler, DTrace inside the kernel framework, booting from USB devices, improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client, a new cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command that brings an API for thread to CPU binding and last but not least DVD-sized media …
Zone-H publishes every year stats of registered attacks. According to those stats the most targeted operation systems are Linux, Windows 2003 and Windows 2000. The most defaced webservers are Apache, IIS/6.0 and IIS/5.0.
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The long awaited FreeBSD 7.0 Release is out. Some highlights include:
- Better scalability and performance improvements on SMP systems (benchmarks showed linear scaling on machines with 8 CPUs)
- Improved the ULE and 4BSD schedulers
- the new and highly scalable memory allocator jemalloc
- Reading of XFS volumes
- experimantal support of …
JS/UIX is a virtual OS written entierly in JavaScript and uses DHTML to render a simple 80 columns terminal. It is designed to be run in any standard web-browser. It features a UN*X-like operating environment with no intention of any full POSIX compatibility. Some standard commands have been …