Archive for April, 2007



We got ZFS!

ZFS is there. Great! Thanks Pawel!

Now I wait a little bit until the first bugs are ironed out, and then I move all my stuff to it. The nice part: when you have 2 machines and everything you use is jailed, you just can do this without an “interruption of service” (or at least only [...]

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Yeah! Finally I got time to finish my work to put a desktop environment (in this case GNOME) into a jail. At least I have a proof of concept (I write this with firefox running in my “deskjail”). No, I don’t do this for additional security (there’s more security than in a non-jailed setup, but [...]

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Catching up… GSoC 2007

We got a lot of good proposals. Google is willing to give us a very nice amount of students. We didn’t expected this much. Thanks!

Now we need to rate the student applications and find suitable mentors… not that easy. It’s easy for the strongest proposals, but for the rest I expect that there will be [...]

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The linuxulator is synced on amd64 with i386 (since a while). This means TLS is working now and we have the same (a little bit buggy) futexes.

Roman is slowly working on the *at() commands. He also applied for the GSoC this year again. Kib is willing to mentor (in case Roman gets a free seat [...]

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