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EuroBSDCon 2009

Posted on 23 February, 2009 by Matthias Scheler

Since 2001 the yearly European BSD Conference provides a great opportunity to present new ideas and meet developers of all BSD projects. This year’s European BSD conference takes place in Cambridge, UK. As one of the local NetBSD developers I’m … Continue reading →

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Intel PRO/1000 PT

Posted on 8 December, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

After experiencing a lot of trouble with the onboard Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet interface of my new server I decided to get a network card that would be suitable to replace it. As Intel PRO/1000 MT PCI cards worked very … Continue reading →

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Goodbye i386 … Hello amd64!

Posted on 30 November, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Last Sunday I retired my NetBSD/i386 server installation after over 12 years of service. Back in 1996 I installed NetBSD 1.1 on a PC with a Cyrix 66MHz 486 CPU, 16MB main memory, a 1GB IDE hard disk and a … Continue reading →

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