On Wednesday, 17 October 2012 at 10:22:14 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Is vinum still supported? Are people relying on it today? > > The reason I ask is because the web site (www.vinumvm.org) appears > to have been defaced. Or is that not the official site?
I gave up the domain name vinumvm.org years ago. It's surprising that the current owner had kept a somewhat similar appearance. > Example: > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/Current-implementations.html This is from a paper I presented about 14 years ago. Basically, nothing of interest has happened on that site in over 10 years. > If you are finding that you have limited funds and that you are > having a hard time paying your credit card bills, you are not > alone. So many ... Ah, missed that. It's not mutilation per se, since it was (presumably) put there by the current owner. Regarding the history of Vinum: I wrote it between 1998 and 2000, somewhat to the displeasure of phk, because it didn't fit into the GEOM framework. By the time it came to adapt to GEOM, I was no longer able to do any work on it, and Lukas Ertl wrote a new version called gvinum, with which I had very little to do. I can't comment on its current support in FreeBSD. The old vinum was ported to NetBSD (by myself) and DragonFlyBSD (I forget by whom). The NetBSD port atrophied and was removed, but it seems that the DragonFlyBSD version is alive and well. There's info on it at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/handbook-vinum-config/ Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger [email protected] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
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