Re: [Sheflug] General hello

[Richard Stevenson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris J wrote:

> And Lo! The Great Prophet "Jonathan Defries" uttered these words of wisdom:

Welcome, Jonathan :)

> > I recently moved up to Sheffield from London, where I was working for an
> > ISP as a systems administrator/support/tea maker/complaints bod.
>
> I'm bumping into many people that seem to have moved from London. It's
> getting rather disturbing...

How about a list member in New Zealand for disturbing? :P

> > My main areas of expertise are FreeBSD, qmail, apache and bind so
> > hopefully I'll be able to contribute something useful to any questions
> > people might have and I'm expecting to learn a great deal at the same
> > time!
>
> Ah - a BSD'er. Can't remember how many are on here; looked at Free once,
> but chucked it quite quickly as up until very recently it's SMP support
> wasn't particularly brilliant. Since 5's comes out though I could do with
> taking another look. Beyond that, Net runs on an Alpha and Open on a
> firewall. Linux runs on my main desktop though :)

According to the early adopter notes
(<http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html>), SMPng isn't
yet complete - I'd probably wait until 5.0 becomes -STABLE if it's
important.  That said, I'm running 5.0 at work on two core systems - our
file server, and our external services (web/mail/etc) machine.  The file
server is dual-processor, but we haven't configured SMP in the kernel.
Come to think of it, that machine's still running the GENERIC kernel.
Must fix that.

Regards

Richard

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