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Berkeley Software Distribution is a UNIX-derived operating system developed at the University of California from 1977 through 1995.

Berkeley Software Distribution is a UNIX-derived operating system developed at the University of California from 1977 through 1995.

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Does anyone really understand how HFSC scheduling in Linux/BSD works?

I read the original SIGCOMM '97 PostScript paper about HFSC, it is very technically, but I understand the basic concept. Instead of giving a linear service curve (as with pretty much every other scheduling algorithm), you can specify a convex or…
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What is good about the BSDs?

I've used Ubuntu on and off since Warty Warthog. I was thinking about installing Jaunty soon; but I noticed that over the weekend NetBSD 5.0, Dragonfly BSD 2.2.1, OpenBSD 4.5, and FreeBSD 7.2 have all been released, so I got curious: What is good…
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Should I create ZFS zpools with whole disks or partitions?

I am making zpools on FreeBSD machine. While creating zpools I observe these two cases: If I take raw disks and create zpool then I am able to form zpools and they are working perfectly. If I format disks using gpart in freebsd-zfs format and then…
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Difference between chroot and jail

I read this tutorial - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot - and what I understood is that, chroot is the process of changing the / while the new restricted environment created is the "jail". But some people say I am wrong and chroot and…
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What is the OS X / BSD equivalent of the GNU "ps auxf" command?

In the GNU utils, ps auxf gives the process list with forest (tree). Is there a equivalent for this command at BSD / OS X systems?
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Good low power server/pc for firewall?

Does anyone know of a low power server/pc that have 2 NIC's, so it can be used for a (OpenBSD) firewall? Sandra
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Unix Legendry (and other *nix as well)

This is the twin to this question. Most obscure/upvoted answer will get the answer vote! Most Unix and Unix-like systems have a "traditional history" that is passed down with each generation, so that newcomers can see and understand some of the more…
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Why pay for UNIX?

I'm fairly new to Unicies. With the advent of GNU/Linux and BSDs, what are the reasons for companies to prefer AIX, Solaris and other commercial systems?
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Limiting network throughput of an already launched process ? (Linux/FreeBSD)

Is there any utility to limit the network throughput of a process after it has been launched? Simple example: you note that a user takes all your upload bandwidth using scp and you'd like to limit the rate or decrease the priority of the transfer. I…
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Why do you have to create a directory before you can mount a share?

Why do you have to create a directory before you can mount a share to it? Eg: I've never understood why mkdir is needed here: mkdir /Volumes/foo mount -t afp afp://username:pass@pretendco.com/foo /Volumes/foo
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Should I build my own or buy a cheap NAS?

I've looked at this question and gotten some ideas from it. Assume I want something that runs quietly with raid support. I see the choices as being buy a home NAS solution most of which appear to be $400 or more, or build my own low powered PC and…
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What is the alternative to ls --time-style=full-iso in BSD?

command in Linux $ ls -lt --time-style=full-iso output ... -rw-r--r-- 1 mduda mduda 1855 2009-08-26 13:07:55.000000000 +0200 screen-configurations.xml drwxr-xr-x 2 mduda mduda 4096 2009-08-26 13:07:22.000000000 +0200 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2…
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FreeBSD jails vs virtualization performance

I'll soon buy myself a nice server (something like the quad-cpu HP DL585) for personal use (home related stuff, data-mining projects, web server and some cron jobs), and I wonder how to separate all those tasks into dedicated environments. I'm used…
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BSD nc (netcat) does not terminate on EOF

Host A: tar cf - stuff | dd | nc -N -l 12987 Host B: nc a.example.com 12987 | dd | tar tf - On host A dd prints its summary after tar completes. Thus it is clear, that tar closes the pipe/file -> EOF. 165040+0 records in 165040+0 records out…
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Install Java 9, 10, 11, or 12 on FreeBSD 11.1

When I look to my up-to-date Ports collection: cd /usr/ports/java && ls -d openjdk* … I see only versions 6, 7, and 8 of Java in the OpenJDK releases: openjdk6 openjdk6-jre openjdk7 openjdk7-jre openjdk8 openjdk8-jre ➥ How does one…
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