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Frank Pohlmann says, the FreeBSD operating system is the unknown giant among free operating systems. Starting out from the 386BSD project, it is an extremely fast UNIX®-like operating system mostly for the Intel® chip and its clones. In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux®-based operating systems should have been. It runs on out-of-date Intel machines and 64-bit AMD chips, and it serves terabytes of files a day on some of the largest file servers on earth.
The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) family of operating systems can be traced back to the BSD UNIX operating system created and maintained at the University of California, Berkeley, since the late 1970s. Today, the BSD family consists of five main branches, and even Linux activists, comfortable with a plethora of distributions, find themselves bemused by the number of BSD flavors appearing in ever-greater numbers. Since 2001, when the last major branch — DragonFly BSD — was launched, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X represent a new creative surge in the UNIX world. All of them are POSIX-compliant. All present similar command-line interfaces to their users. All use kernels and system libraries that make similar programming models and application usage characteristics possible. Read more.

BSDForums.org says, Poul-Henning Kamp has released a devfs patch for your test and review. This patch eliminates the need for atomic instructions and does away with the “overflow” table along with other updates. Back when devfs was first introduced, it was necessary to isolate the device driver context(s) from the filesystem context(s) and a lot of atomic instructions went into that. Now that MPng and various cleanups have simplified the world a bit, this patch eliminates all the atomic fireworks and does away with the “overflow” table and other nastyness. Read more.

YAHOO!News says, a red flash of devilish horns from the corner of your eye. Enormous green tennis shoes that any NBA basketball player would be proud to wear. No, it’s not some new Internet flash animation for deviled ham. It’s beastie, the FreeBSD Project mascot, causing havoc on the exhibition floor of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon. Everyone loves beastie, even the Linux people. Who wouldn’t love a 7 foot tall, pudgy red daemon with a pitchfork? Well, maybe a certain cold-weather flightless bird would be better off staying away from the business end of that pitchfork. When beastie started cruising the tradeshow floor on a Segway scooter, the camera flashes were almost blinding. Beastie was just one of the many attractions at the FreeBSD booth at OSCON this year. Read more.

Adrian Sullivan says, for the writers of magicthegathering.com, last week began by several of us calling dibs on an angel for Angel Week. As you already from yesterday, Anthony quickly shotgunned the Copper-Leaf Angel for his article, and I hopped onto Pristine Angel just as quickly. For my purposes, Pristine Angel was the only one to choose, other than maybe Reya Dawnbringer. There may be angels that are far more powerful (Exalted Angel springs to mind), but Pristine Angel is the one that seems to offer the most to play around with. Read more.

Nate Heiss says, when it comes to inexpensive decks that are full of raw power, Blue-Green Threshold takes the cake. Truthfully, nothing really has to be modified with this deck. More expensive cards could be added and it would still be well below the 30 ticket ceiling, and this list costs about 20 tickets. Don’t be fooled though, those tickets will buy you close to a Tier 1 deck! This deck has great game versus Red-Green and Tog because of the interaction of Wonder, medium sized creatures, and a small amount of countermagic. The key to the deck is Breakthrough–use it to achieve threshold very quickly. There are plenty of things that are great to discard, so don’t hesitate doing it for one or 2 (or even 0 sometimes, if you need cards to go into the graveyard quickly). Read more.