Tag Archives: linux

IPv6 comes up as a conversation point now and again. I got asked my thoughts about it again today and decided to post something I’ve previously written which roughly summarizes what I think. There’s not exactly an alternative to IPv6 … Continue reading →

Most of my time last year went into help make this happen, so I’m quite excited to see the results finally announced publicly. In particular I was looking at jitter and working with engineers at SARA. While linux already has … Continue reading →

Memory on a computer is broken up into pages. Pages used to be one size (eg: 4096 bytes). For various reasons nowadays there are lots of page sizes. Depending on the hardware, in addition to a “base” page size you … Continue reading →

I’ve poked at Sun repeatedly in past blog posts. While Jeremy Allison isn’t with Sun, he was once and understands why Sun did the things they did. Linux systems from Red Hat and others ate Sun up from the inside … Continue reading →