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Alexander Leidinger
Personal blog · leidinger.net/blogsystemsprogramming
Alexander Leidinger's personal blog at leidinger.net covers systems and programming. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Plotting the FreeBSD memory fragmentation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alexander Leidinger's FreeBSD blog, mainly his posts on the FreeBSD linuxulator, which maps Linux syscalls onto FreeBSD, and on FreeBSD ports such as Folding@home.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
X11, FreeBSD and more
Most-linked posts?
- Plotting the FreeBSD memory fragmentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-07
What Hacker News says?
Have a look at FreeBSD's linuxulator. It basically maps syscalls (and a bunch of other stuff) from one OS to another. Alexander Leidinger has written a whole lot of blog posts about it - this one's a good start: http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2010/10/27/the-freebsd-linuxul...
Comment linking /blog/2010/10/27/the-freebsd-linuxulator-explained-for-developers-basics/
on “Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10”Submitted What I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant (2019) as a story · 118 points
HN discussionMake sure to contribute GPU resources as the CPU ones aren't being used for C19 research. EDIT: I have heard that CPU is also getting C19 research but not exclusively. Here is a better link with more details: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus/blob/master/REA... FreeBSD port: https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coron... NixOS port: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/fight-covid-19-with-foldin…
Comment linking /blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/
on “Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus”Submitted Plotting the FreeBSD memory fragmentation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plotting the FreeBSD Memory Fragmentation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The FreeBSD-Linuxulator Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussion