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posted by martyb on Friday August 28 2015, @04:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the kernel-sanders dept.

zafiro17 writes:

FreeBSD hackers Jordan Hubbard and Kip Macy surprised an audience of Bay Area FreeBSD Users in August 2015 by laying out their version for a new architecture, based vaguely on BSD but with a microkernel and an event-driven framework consisting of something like libdispatch and launchd. Those are big changes if you are familiar with what FreeBSD has looked like for all of its life.

The good news is, this doesn't mean the destruction of the FreeBSD we all know and love. In fact, Hubbard, who is also the CTO of ixSystems (developers of FreeNAS and PCBSD, both products derived from FreeBSD) aren't aiming to impact FreeBSD but rather change the fundamental architecture of ixSystems' own products.

The slide deck walks you through the proposed, new architecture. Better still, watch the talk yourself.

As a FreeBSD fan, I'm glad they're treating this as a separate product and not hacking up the FreeBSD source tree; that gives us time to see how this shakes out.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by WillAdams on Friday August 28 2015, @01:00PM

    by WillAdams (1424) on Friday August 28 2015, @01:00PM (#228958)

    Got roped into Mac OS X when Apple bought NeXT, but still miss my Cube.

    Really wish GNUstep was farther along, and still sad that they dropped Display Ghostscript.

    It kills me that they high water mark of computing environments for me was a NeXT Cube paired w/ an NCR-3125 running PenPoint. I'd give a lot to have a similarly synergistic and consistent system. Currently using a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10, and Windows 8 and the low hover distance on Wacom’s AES stylus really annoy me. What is so hard about having a system which:

      - has a consistent interface, optimized for the current input methods
      - afford the user compleat control and easy customization (I really miss tear-off menus)
      - has a rich imaging model (Display PostScript is much nicer than Quartz)

    Ah well, at least I'm still running Macromedia Freehand, née Altsys Virtuoso. I still miss Display PostScript, Services, pop-up main menu, tear-off menus, systemic PANTONE colours, &c.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @08:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @08:35PM (#229176)

    For anyone still reading, there is a neat article on Freehand vector graphics software here,
    http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/freeing-freehand-the-story-of-grief-revenge-and-refusal [libregraphicsworld.org]

    Adobe really screwed the Freehand users...