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vermadenon ZFS v0.8.2

On FreeBSD 11.x and 12.x (and older ones) the currently by default remains the old (not ZFS on Linux) ZFS implementation that has lots of FreeBSD additions like TRIM that was lacked on Linux.

FreeBSD forked ZFS on Linux GitHub repo and now its called ZFS on FreeBSD. You can try it already by installing these two ports:

- sysutils/zol

- sysutils/openzfs-kmod

Regards, vermaden

vermadenon IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set

Still waiting for that modern POWER9 based laptop with 7-row classic ThinkPad keyboard ...

vermadenon Replacing a silently failing disk in a ZFS pool

Its nowhere near ZFS/HAMMER/BTRFS ...

Check their FAQ here: https://stratis-storage.github.io/faq/

In short:

In terms of its design, Stratis is very different from ZFS/BTRFS, since they are both in-kernel filesystems. Stratis is a userspace daemon that configures and monitors existing components from Linux’s device-mapper subsystem, as well as the XFS filesystem.

Red Hat move seems very strange here because it would be better just to hire several BTRFS developers and join the BTRFS Linux ecosystem instead of writing something new ... I still do not know what for ...

vermadenon uBlock Origin 1.20

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20096868 You asked: > Anyone uses FreeBSD on laptop? How is your impressions?

I do since years and here are the tips you may find useful if You would also like to run FreeBSD on the desktop.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/freebsd-desktop/

... and please stay away from Project Trident or TrueOS or Lumina, they are from from being ready.

... eventually GhostBSD is quite OK.

... sorry for hijacking the 'Brave' thread but I am not able to reply to the original comment (time).

vermadenon The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News

Welcome :)

vermadenon The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News

I stopped checking 'general' news long ago.

Recently I searched for some 'valuable' news source - kinda meritum from the news - but nothing like that exists ...

... so I started my own 'news' for UNIX/BSD/Linux related stuff - Valuable News - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/valuable-news-2019...

Because various UNIX/BSD/Linux related news sites also make a lot of SPAM and no-so-much-news ...

vermadenon Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters

Me too :)

vermadenon Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters

It was similar for me, as I want to follow what is 'happening' in the UNIX/BSD/Linux/Hardware world I often sent links to my friends with 'interesting stuff' ... so I created Valuable News to make it available for everyone.

The latest one is available here:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/valuable-news-2019...

vermadenon Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

There are two such books:

* Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

* Discipline Equals Freedom by Willink Jocko

vermadenon Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)

Windows ME/2000 icons were even better.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sl/8/8e/Win2000.png

vermadenon The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD

TL;DR FreeBSD will rebase its ZFS code from Illumos to ZFS on Linux (ZoL).

vermadenon Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?

Strange nobody mentioned Europe/Malta - member of EU, English language, warm on most of the time.

... or Canary Islands even warmer but not English.

... and last but not least - Sri Lanka with English as a secondary/third language (but official) and also warm.

vermadenon LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display

I knew that one, but it was 5000 pieces limited production and its no longer available.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser...

... and besides that one no other modern laptop has 'real' keyboard.

vermadenon LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display

There are so many laptops available today, but NONE of them provides real 7-row keyboard ... one of the reasons I still use 2011 ThinkPad laptops - for the convenience of having INS/DEL HOME/END PGUP/PGDN top-right layout really keyboard layout.

vermadenon The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management

Good idea.

There is also FreeBSD Community Resources wiki page - https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Resources - which contains links to such blogs and resources.

vermadenon The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management

Thanks, I will try that path then.

vermadenon The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management

Long time no see :)

vermadenon The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management

OpenBSD has its own problems, for example packages for RELEASE are built only once at the release date and never touched later, like in the old FreeBSD days.

That lefts OpenBSD users with software containing security holes and bugs. IMHO OpenBSD should create a pkg(8) equivalent (or even port it/import it like openssl) to have up to date packages at least for RELEASE.

vermadenon The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management

It was long time ago and and today it would probably look better but still zero response is not a good sign either.

vermadenon The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management

The FreeBSD Handbook is generally very well written but for parts that change often or that are 'less popular' it could be managed little better.

vermadenon The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management

Thanks for comment. I generally agree with you, that I should now check what is available in the Handbook and submit patches to make it better but I have very unpleasant memory from the past.

There was time when VirtualBox was not available on FreeBSD, no one even thought about writing Bhyve and QEMU was only 'virtualization' option on FreeBSD (with KQEMU accelerator module).

As I used FreeBSD I even made a howto - HOWTO: QEMU on FreeBSD - still available here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-qemu-on-freebsd.175...

... and someone suggested just that, to add my thoughts/changes to the FreeBSD Handbook.

... so I did sit down and rewrite entire 'Virtualization Chapter' in HTML, still available here: http://www.strony.toya.net.pl/~vermaden/FreeBSD-Handbook-Vir...

... and no one done anything with it.

It was not merged, not a single bit from it was merged into the FreeBSD Handbook.

When I asked why I got response that maybe if it was in the correct format (I do not remember which documentation framework FreeBSD used back then) some parts would be used but as its in HTML no one will even 'waste' time merging it. I did the most 'hard' part which is creating the valuable content, formatting is secondary thing for me, but it was not for them.

Since then I do not bother about FreeBSD Handbook. I still use it from time to time thou. I would not have anything against even if someone would put my entire article there without any changes, that would serve a lot of people, but if someone will do it, that I do not know.

Regards.

vermadenon Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones

One more time to repeat and remember.

Fingerprint is at MOST 'username'. Never a 'password'.

vermadenon Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

I wonder when they will introduce icons in the desktop :)

vermadenon Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and syscall translation

Someone just ported FreeBSD Linux Binary Compatibility layer to iOS? :)

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html

vermadenon Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

I miss the REAL ThinkPads from 2011 and earlier with REAL ThinkPad 7-row keyboards.

The ThinkPad 25 Anniversary Edition is a step in good direction but Lenovo does not plan to introduce more of them.

Same with Dell D630 with extended battery that was in front and server well as palm rest, very nice piece of hardware.

Same with ThinkPad X301.

Not to mention SparcBook or PowerBook ...

vermadenon Pause/unpause any X11 application

You are right about pkill.

About CTRL-Z and other of these I once wrote about them :)

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/ghost-in-the-shell...

vermadenon Pause/unpause any X11 application

Good idea.

Just added -A and -S options that also minimize a window.

  -a  -  Do pause/resume active window.
  -A  -  Do pause/resume active window and minimize it.
  -s  -  Do pause/resume interactively selected window.
  -S  -  Do pause/resume interactively selected window and minimize it.

https://github.com/vermaden/scripts/commit/03591a138b14ceded...

vermadenon Pause/unpause any X11 application

The `xdotool` is available in the https://brew.sh so you can just use the provided `desktop-pause.sh` script with a shortcut which does exactly that - "grabs the active window and sends stop/continue signals to that window".

vermadenon Pause/unpause any X11 application

In what way its more reliable?

It works only on Linux.

Mine approach works on Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Illumos/Solaris/UNIX/...

vermadenon Pause/unpause any X11 application

Fixed, thank you for pointing that.