I have a few 4x2.5gbe and 2x10gbe, and I think one is 8x2.5 + 1x10gbe.

Theyll get better, networking is actually easy to sku once you get going, they’ve just enjoyed the premiums till now.

And again, wifi was considered the main connector, which is why we got 2.5gbe in the first place, it fit 802.11ac and most of ax.

I actually love the theory of the Mach nanokernel, I just also think Apple went their own way with it, defeating the purpose entirely.

You’re right, but rax is amd64.

I think there were a few early amd64 systems with genuine ps2, and I think you can still get one, but it wasn’t common, and honestly it’s probably usb->ps/2.

To be a pedantic asshole: mov eax, ecx? Unless you’re commenting on the insanity of interrupt driven i/O in the modern age of high performance, deep-pipelined superscalar OOO cores.

Realtek Freebsd drivers are ‘ok’ now, but that was a long fight.

Outside of wifi (I mean Jesus christ) most of freebsd networking got fixed a decade ago, but you still need to stick with common-ish gear.

Freebsd on kvm though, that’s a game breaker, especially with sriov mellanox.

And fucked it up by releasing the 8169 with a stepping change that added power management.

The kernel driver didn’t know this, so links would silently not come up, and you wouldn’t know why till you googled and learned you had to rebuild your kernel for your new motherboard.

That’ll be a while, there isn’t much push yet (1gbe is still pretty fast) and you can do 2.5 if you want to push, they’re basically starting to replace 1gbe with 2.5gbe as a drop in.

WiFi kind of screwed everything because it’s 90-95% of all user clients, so if wifi can’t handle the bandwidth, the bandwidth is considered ‘commercial’ and they charge you through the nose.

Excellent!

Now if we can only teach realtek how pci device id’s work, so they don’t use revision id’s to control power management, and links silently don’t come up if your kernel driver doesn’t support it properly.

I know this was a decade ago, but yeah, I’m still pretty damn pissed.

Qnx is certified and has (hard) rtos baked in.

But montavista and others give most of that by now for less and are more maintainable anyway.

Linux back then was just minix with more packages like x.

The kernel was absolute bedlam back then.

Msft funded them for a while to do this:

https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center-networking/microsoft-s-ties-to-sco-confirmed-by-investment-group

Amen, freebsd crew represent!

And to anybody throwing shade:

BSD is literally the #1 mobile os, and has been for years, even if the kernel has extra chromosomes.

It has a lot of value.

Firstly, we use lasers to measure chemical reactions, this one could increase resolution and potentially be used to trigger or shape the reaction.

Secondly, it could be a path towards laser-induced fusion which is kind of important.

Finally, modrrn chips are fabricated using something called an extreme-UV process, that uses sputtered tin hit with a multiple precision laser pulses. This could be used to refine that process further.

That’s not strictly true.

Chemical lasers absolutely generate their own power, you’re thinking of electro-optically excited lasers.

I can get something out of it from Swedish, so obviously nobody should have an excuse.

It’s incredible if your hardware is compatible.

Yeah, wifi is still sketchy though.

Not Linux, but 9front or that thing they wrap the gnu Mach kernel in.

Yo.

Wouldn’t recommend it for novices, but I’ve just never had a better server distro, they perfected it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/

Beautiful, but: