Archive for the 'NetBSD' Category

NetBSD TV: The Media Server

Thursday, 13th of November 2008

As I mentioned recently I bought a Playstation 3 (PS3) to use as a streaming video client in conjunction with the MediaTomb UPnP media server. Here is my recipe for installing and configuring the server package under NetBSD. The instructions apply to version 0.11.0nb2 or newer of the package, older versions provide neither a startup [...]

NetBSD TV: The Streaming Video Client

Monday, 10th of November 2008

For quite some time I’ve been looking for a streaming video client that would allow me to watch the video files that are stored on my NetBSD server on the TV in the sitting room. I thought that my requirements for such a client were pretty basic:

Decent analog video (preferably via a SCART connector) and [...]

WAPBL vs. Soft Dependences

Saturday, 23rd of August 2008

A few weeks ago I posted about NetBSD’s new journaling technology WAPBL. I received a lot of questions concerning the benchmark results that I published. People were especially interested in a comparison with FFS using soft dependences. I hadn’t used this mode in my original benchmark because my personal experiences with soft dependences weren’t very [...]