Imapenguin Blog

My good friend Jake and I trucked up to new york and were sitting pretty close to where this camera is to watch this speech. We were fairly new to Linux at this point, the year before I was RedHat certified for the first time and only about 4 years prior to this speech I installed my first Slackware system (it was on a stack of floppies and took about 12 hours to install).

This was the conference where we came home with about 20 pounds of giveaways. Ahh, the good ol days.

Watch it here:

http://www.linux.com/feature/127400

He talks quite a bit about Unix fragmentation. It’s striking in 2008 how fragmented Linux has become.

He also says, in 2000, Java is dying.

Oreilly has a pretty good article on what’s exciting in FreeBSD 7.

We’re big fans of Sun’s ZFS file system which is working well for us in the RC versions of FreeBSD 7.

I switched to Firefox 3 on all of my machines. The page rendering speed improvements are so dramatic that there’s no way I can go back to “stable” versions.

It’s almost as fast as Safari. Almost.

This is more information on why you’d ever need, but I like to hear Linus talk.

If you download Java from java.sun.com you need to install compat-libstdc++-33 on your system for it to work. It’s easy, as root do:

yum install compat-libstdc++-33