145: At the Core of it all

It’s BSDCan time! Allan and I are both enjoying what is sure to be a super-busy week, but don’t think we’ve forgotten about

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Interview - Benno Rice - [email protected] / @jeamland

• Manager, OS & Networking at EMC Isilon

• Emily Dunham: Community Automation

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iXsystems

• 1U Rackmount Server - 4 Bay Hot-Swap SAS/SATA Drive Bays 400W Redundant Power Supply - Single Socket Embedded CPU (48 cores) - 8 DIMM Slots with
  16GB DIMMs for a total of 128GB RAM – Dual Gigabit LAN, Dual 10GbE SFP+ and 1 x 40Gb QSFP+ port, (1) PCI-E Expansion Slots + IPMI Dedicated LAN -
  Cavium ThunderX ARM CN8890 48 Core ThunderX CPU - 2.5GHz per core

• System has 128GB RAM, 4 x 2TB SATA HDD, Additional Intel i350 (2 x 1GbE)

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Beastie Bits

• file considered harmful

• An open source talk on ZFS. “Intro to ZFS” as a set of open source slides for the community to build on, and to reuse. Go give this talk at your local conference.

• ARMv7 now has a bootloader

• SHA256/512 speed improvements in FreeBSD 11

• pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Joerg Sonnenberg

• DFly versus PC-BSD on a Laptop

• FreeBSD ifconfig can print subnet masks in CIDR or dotted-quad, finally

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Feedback/Questions

• Eli - Getting rid of ports?
• Morgan - Best way to admin jails?
• Simon - Use existing pkgs in poudriere
• Pete - Lots of Q’s
• Van - Made the switch ***