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Upgrade from OpenBSD 4.9 to 5.0

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Today is the day when OpenBSD 5.0 is officially launched. Learn about the news from here . The main reason for me to upgrade is “(…)big-memory support has been enabled on all possible architectures (…)”. My instance running on a Dell XPS M1330 will now benefit from it’s 8GB of RAM!

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FreeBSD 8 on Dell XPS M1330

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I have a Virtual Lab to setup and my Dell XPS M1330 has 8GB of RAM. Let’s see what we can do with FreeBSD on this…

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Mac OS X Leopard on Dell XPS M1330

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Here are quick notes about installing Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on a non-Apple desktop. Beware that this probably break patents and copyrights unless … (not sure about when this is tolerated). So you’d probably have to try this, then erase and installed a Free OS.

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