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Re:Linux: IO without entering the kernel on Sunday December 16, 2018 @11:35AM (#18693758)
So it’s like netmap for disk.
Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS on Sunday December 16, 2018 @02:56AM (#18692215)
You know that FreeBSD and pfsense run on espresso.bin, right?
Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS on Sunday December 16, 2018 @02:53AM (#18692211)
> Ubiquiti's EdgeOS is based on a production major network os, Vyatta, (as is VyOs), and therefor has a lot more scrutiny and bug fixing than those other things

Apparently you’ve not really looked at EdgeOS. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/16/ubiquiti_networking...

Vyatta was acquired by Brocade in 2012. Ubiquiti forked after that.

Re:Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:17AM (#18665130)
the xhyve repo came with a small Linux setup

time (git clone github.com/mist64/xhyve.git; cd xhyve; make; ./xhyverun.sh) w/ "sudo halt" pasted into the resulting shell: 14.85s