Monthly Archives: October 2007

OpenBSD developer notes king’s clothing is “virtual”

Posted on October 25, 2007 by yodaiken

Theo de Raadt explains why virtualization does not improve security. How about this: to improve security, you have to have a secure design, a marketing buzzword won’t do the trick. Anyone who has seriously looked that the current generation x86 … Continue reading →

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The Linux community

Posted on October 18, 2007 by yodaiken

According to Greg’s email, organizations that contributed more than 100 changesets to the recently released 2.6.23 kernel included: Red Hat with 827 changesets (11.7%), IBM with 557 changesets (7.9%), the Linux Foundation with 528 changesets (7.5%), Novell with 449 changesets … Continue reading →

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Distributed shared memory from first principles

Posted on October 14, 2007 by yodaiken

[Update 10/16] What is the fundamental performance limiting factor that has dominated that last 30 years of computer architecture? The obvious answer is the disparity between processor and memory/storage speed. We connect processors to cache, to more cache, to even … Continue reading →

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