BSDCON
2003
14 years 8 days ago
2003
The existing thread scheduler in FreeBSD was well suited towards the computing environment that it was developed in. As the priorities and hardware targets of the project have cha...
BSDCON
2003
14 years 8 days ago
2003
With the present trend towards increased reliance upon computer systems, the provision and prompt application of security patches is becoming vital. Developers of all operating sy...
BSDCON
2003
14 years 8 days ago
2003
NetBSD has a cross build infrastructure which allows cross-building of an entire NetBSD release including bootable distribution media. The build process does not require root priv...
BSDCON
2003
14 years 8 days ago
2003
The ever increasing mobility of computers has made protection of data on digital storage media an important requirement in a number of applications and situations. GBDE is a stron...
BSDCON
2003
14 years 8 days ago
2003
While the subject of SMP locking primitives has been well covered in the literature [Val][Schm][Bald][Leh], there has been relatively little discussion on the rationale and proces...
BSDCON
2003
14 years 8 days ago
2003
In this paper we discuss the design and implementation of Fellowship, a 300+ CPU, general use computing cluster based on FreeBSD. We address the design features including configu...