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      UNIX: What Is a Tarball

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      @JJoyner1985 said in UNIX: What Is a Tarball:

      So, do you think the reason I am seeing a lot more gzip in use with tarballs is due to the familiarity of gzip and the negligible difference in the compression between it and bzip2? Basically, bzip2 doesn't make enough of an improvement with sufficient regularity to entice people to move away from gzip, or is there some other benefit to gzip that my training material hasn't covered?

      That's correct. The difference between the two is generally small enough that people are not concerned. And lots of systems still don't have bzip2 installed by default so if you want scripts or whatever to work universally you often use gzip because you know that it is always there and predictable.

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      First Look at Lumina 1.0 on PC-BSD

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      Lumina Desktop Hits 1.0.0 Release

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      Now that I'm on fiber I seem to be able to post screen shots. More to come tomorrow. It is very late here.

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      Linux: Using tar

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      UNIX Scheduling with cron

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      Thanks!

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      Installing FreeBSD 10.3 with ZFS on Scale HC3

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      zroot is #1 reason to love ZFS !!

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      OpenBSD 5.9 Install on Scale HC3

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      I'll definitely share! ))

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      FreeBSD 10.3 Released

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      Updated our slave database servers to 10.3 a couple of weeks ago... we roll out phases since we've got so many damn servers. It's always a nightmare. If no issues for the next couple of weeks or additional patches, we'll roll out to primary database servers (they're all sets of master-master, the slaves are for search primarily, but also are useful for a live test if everything passes staging, and they're a hot backup too if any issues arise) and then web servers. We never go down so it's a painfully slow process.

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      Introducing UbuntuBSD

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      @tonyshowoff said:

      @BBigford said:

      @tonyshowoff said:

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      @scottalanmiller said:

      Yeah, the GNU/Linux people seem to have died off long ago. It was one of those big trends once upon a time.

      Richard Stallman died off? .... (joke)

      I swear, in EVERY conversation I've heard him engage, he spins the conversation into the naming (GNU/Linux... NOT Linux). I think in the flick Revolution OS he talked about it no less than 60 times.

      That movie also hinted at what a total psycho Eric S Raymond also is with his bizarre explosive behaviour. He's also pretty... pretty extremely sexist and actually not even really that technical, he's more like Stallman. What I do like is him complaining about Stallman, sometimes it's pretty funny what he writes and calls him out on.

      I don't remember him being explosive in that movie. Got any examples to refresh my memory?

      Well when the interviewer brings up that some people compare open source to communism, something that actually almost never happens in real life, his face turns bright red, he flips out and gives a very 1950s ice America view of life under Marxism. As someone from such a country, it was really strange. It did seem like he was trying to restrain himself.

      Haha I forgot about some of those lines. Thanks for the refresh. Been a while since I've watched that flick.

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      Installing and Testing PC-BSD 10.2 on the Scale HC3

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      @KOOLER already tested vanilla FreeBSD 🙂

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      Phoronix Tests 3 BSD and 10 Linux OSes for Performance

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      @scottalanmiller said:

      For home laptop use (non-gaming) be sure to check out PC-BSD. It's screaming fast, super stable and very responsive.

      In this particular article it was a solid, but not fastest, performer in the transcoding benchmarks they ran, which were about as close to web serfing and video watching. PC-BSD is the fastest bar none if you're compiling software or iops intensive workloads.

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      FossForce Story on PC-BSD on a Laptop

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      In many ways that is where Linux shines.... fewer apps.

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      FreeBSD Comes to 64bit ARM Processors

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      And yes, great for containers.

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      Phoronix Compares Performance in FreeBSD 10.2 and Ubuntu 15.04 and 15.10

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      Will We See ZeroTier on FreeBSD and Other BSD Family Platforms

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      It's just that Windows Phone and Windows RT have merged and that's where that codebase has gone. It's real Windows now, from my understanding.

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      PC-BSD 10.2 Desktop FreeBSD Distro Released

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      Microsoft First Ever Gold Level OpenBSD Contributor

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      PFSense for dual WAN connection firewall - thoughts?

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      @thecreativeone91 said:

      Pfsense doesn't do well performance wise virtalized. At least it didn't used to. I think they have a pay for version optimized for VM platforms.

      It's just FreeBSD plus drivers, right? It should do as well as FreeBSD does on whatever platform is in question. That FreeBSD doesn't have PV support for Xen is a major drawback to FreeBSD as a platform in general. But it should only be a question of drivers, in general.

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      PC-BSD 10.1.1 Cinnamon Edition Released

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      I love both PC-BSD and Cinnamon. Just wish that they would get this polished and fully stable. Could really be awesome. Although, I hear, PC-BSD is working on a native desktop to really help the BSD desktop ecosystem compete as Linux desktops have deep ties into the Linux ecosystem.

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      PC-BSD 10.1 Has Released

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      @scottalanmiller said:

      http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2014/11/24/pc-bsd-10-1-review/

      It took me a few goes to read that link correctly.
      The first few times, I read Linux BS DOS. 😆

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