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NetBSD/xen I/O Performance

Posted on 23 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

In the past NetBSD has been reported to deliver poor I/O performance when running under the Xen hypervisor. Because I’m considering running Xen on my home server in future I ran some benchmarks under NetBSD/xen myself recently. I used my … Continue reading →

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Updating to Mac OS X Leopard

Posted on 9 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

I recently updated my Power Mac G5 from Mac OS X Tiger to Leopard. I used the update option offered by the Leopard installation DVD which did a reasonable job. The process took about two hours and the machine started … Continue reading →

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10 years as a NetBSD developer

Posted on 30 April, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

I realized yesterday that I forgot about my tenth anniversary as NetBSD developer which was in January this year. There were good times and bad times in these ten years. But overall it was a lot fun. I learned much … Continue reading →

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