Category Archives: Computing

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(Not) downloading Solaris 10

Posted on 28 September, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

The most advanced operating system ever built is according to Sun Microsystems Solaris 10. Last Sunday I decided to try out the latest update release Solaris 10 6/06 on my ULTRA60. Because I have frequently problems with NFS and NIS … Continue reading →

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My little Bugathon

Posted on 26 September, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

Elad Efrat, one of the most active NetBSD developers in the last few month, recently organized NetBSD’s first Bugathon. It was a successful effort involving NetBSD users and developers to reduce the number of open bugs report against the NetBSD … Continue reading →

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Running a server at home

Posted on 21 September, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

I keep a server running at home 24/7 for ten years now. It started with a small 486 CPU based PC running NetBSD 1.1. Back then no ISP rented out servers and hosting your own machine in an ISP’s data … Continue reading →

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