“FreeBSD 14 on ARM64 and AMD64 now supports up to 1024 CPU cores, up from the current limit of 256 cores. With AMD EPYC Bergamo now allowing 128-cores / 256-threads per socket, that current FreeBSD limit is exceeded so now at least FreeBSD 14.0 will allow for playing with these high core count servers.”
The portsnap(8) utility has been removed in the upcoming 14 stable and users are encouraged to fetch the ports tree by using:
The following commit df53ae0fdd98 back in April inserted portsnap into the ObsoleteFiles.inc.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/ObsoleteFiles.inc
Took place in San Francisco on Oct 16-17 (Mon-Tue), 2023.
A video with the presentations is uploaded in YouTube.
The detailed schedule can be found here:
Microsoft has developed a storage technology primarily designed for cloud purposes.
Project Silica uses laser pulses to encode data in glass, creating a durable, long-lasting storage medium. Data are encoded in so called voxels which are 3 dimensional data points.
Microsoft claims that that the 7 TB storage per glass sheet maintains data integrity for up to 10,000 years.
This promising idea is being researched and organized into a write lab, a read lab, a decode lab as well a library lab
23.10 adds ZFS on root during the installation process and Gnome 45 as the default desktop environment.
I may write about Manjaro’s disorganization in another post…
Stable in about 2 weeks
There’s a fix for a kernel crash when unplugging Logitech USB receivers and various other changes regarding hung systems at shutdowns or reboots. This seems to affect various Lenovo, Sony, and Dell systems using Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake that were having problems at shutdown/reboot.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/
ArchWiki registration requires the output of the following command as a verification process:
pacman -V|base32|head -1
BIQC4LJNFYQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAICQMFRW2YLOEB3DMLRQFYZCALJANRUWEYLMOBWS
But what does this even mean? Let’s break it down.
(pacman -V)’s output is piped to base32, the result of which is processed by head.
pacman -V gives info about the current version of pacman
> pacman -V
.–. Pacman v6.0.2 – libalpm v13.0.2
/ _.-‘ .-. .-. .-. Copyright (C) 2006-2021 Pacman Development Team
\ ‘-. ‘-‘ ‘-‘ ‘-‘ Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
‘–‘
This program may be freely redistributed under
the terms of the GNU General Public License.
base32 transforms data read from a file into base32 encoded form and uses printable ASCII characters to represent binary data.
In my case pacman -V|base32 output is:
BIQC4LJNFYQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAICQMFRW2YLOEB3DMLRQFYZCALJANRUWEYLMOBW
S
A5RRGMXDALRSBIXSAXZOFUTSALRNFYQCALRNFYQCALRNFYQCAICDN5YHS4TJM5UHIIBIIMUSAMR
Q
GA3C2MRQGIYSAUDBMNWWC3RAIRSXMZLMN5YG2ZLOOQQFIZLBNUFFYIBAE4WS4IBHFUTSAIBHFUT
S
AIBHFUTSAIBAINXXA6LSNFTWQ5BAFBBSSIBSGAYDELJSGAYDMICKOVSGIICWNFXGK5AKEATS2LJ
H
BIQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAICUNBUXGIDQOJXWO4TBNUQG2YLZEBRGKIDGOJS
W
K3DZEBZGKZDJON2HE2LCOV2GKZBAOVXGIZLSBIQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAID
U
NBSSA5DFOJWXGIDPMYQHI2DFEBDU4VJAI5SW4ZLSMFWCAUDVMJWGSYZAJRUWGZLOONSS4CQK
https://man.archlinux.org/man/base32.1.en
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/base32-invocation.html#base32-invocation
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