Another member of the BSD – family, FreeBSD, was just released in a new version 7.1. Most noticeable is that this release now features dtrace, ported from OpenSolaris. Release notes are here. Interestingly enough FreeBSD already had ZFS as a filesystem onboard and has limited support for Sparc and Sun4v (Coolthreads) systems. Together with Apple's Mac OSX we have now broader support for fundamental tecnologies developped in OpenSolaris.
Tuesday Jan 06, 2009
Wednesday Oct 29, 2008
Don MacAskill has an update on ZFS and MySQL/InnoDB compression. Interesting read like the first article.
Monday Oct 13, 2008
A very interesting blogpost by the CTO of SmuMug - a photo sharing site - on his experience with OpenSolaris, ZFS and MySQL in production is here. Found it through an entry in the blog of Marc Hamilton.
This is a good example of a web 2.0 company using our open source tools today.
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