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New comment by gtewallace in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

gtewallace — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:45:47 +0000

Now word is Amazon initiated this. Amazon, the company with $50B invested in OpenAI as it prepares for IPO.

New comment by gtewallace in "Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD's strategic move toward broader adoption"

gtewallace — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:32:08 +0000

In the press release, the CEO of Quantum Leap Research, Jim Miller, said: “Quantum Leap Research believes FreeBSD is an excellent choice to serve as the foundation for a new secure computing initiative given its long history of security and stability,” said Jim Miller, President of Quantum Leap Research. "Quantum Leap plans to run FreeBSD on contemporary laptops as a hypervisor-like solution using Bhyve to virtualize other operating systems, including Linux and Windows."

https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9234109/quan...

New comment by gtewallace in "n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool"

gtewallace — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:36:40 +0000

I've worked in open source for two decades and something that I've observed that I think is as close to a law (as in law of physics) as anything I've seen is the 90 | 9 | 1 ratio.

90 percent of any community - the Hacker News community, reddit, x, or any open source community - will be passive consumers.

9 percent will be contributors - as the reply below says, through feedback, testimonials, bug reports and the like.

1 percent will be creators - new features, innovations, fixes.

This is the way it is. "Freeloading" is a very very unfortunate term and I wish it had not been inserted into the popular lexicon. The creators of open source that I know WANT their software to be used.

New comment by gtewallace in "HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD"

gtewallace — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:27:42 +0000

a couple projects underway for containers, still wip but promising.

https://hackmd.io/7BIT_khIRQyPAe4EdiigHg

https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj

New comment by gtewallace in "Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparently)"

gtewallace — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:19:59 +0000

I work at the FreeBSD Foundation. There are a couple points I'd like to make. First, FreeBSD support in Ansible and Salt is very good. There is work to do on K8s, but runj represents a great start and there are a bunch of resources available on how to use FreeBSD for cloud native. Last, I think your final point that "[FreeBSD] should not be the default choice for a production deployment" could be worded better. I gather your meaning is "...for a general purpose enterprise deployment". Assuming that’s what you mean, FreeBSD limitations that make it difficult for general purpose enterprise use is something I have heard and that I am personally involved in trying to improve. To me, that's different from "production deployment". There is a long list of production deployments of FreeBSD at the infrastructure and device layers - routers, VPNs, firewalls, storage systems, hosted security solutions, industrial control systems, CDNs, payment networks, and embedded devices.

New comment by gtewallace in "FreeBSD Jails Containers"

gtewallace — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:29:46 +0000

Here is a talk from SCaLE 2023 on Cloud Native FreeBSD: https://www.youtube.com/live/ReYon0HLj2k?feature=share&t=180...

Review Board 2.5 released with many improvements for code and document review

gtewallace — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:06:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reviewboard.org/news/2015/10/28/review-board-2-5-is-here/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479842

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