Convention in Linux for network interface simple and clear.

eth for cable connection
ath or wifi for wireless connection
l0 for loopback

sample from my ubuntu feisty fawn box :
alamsyah@alamsyah-laptop:~$ ifconfig -a

ath0  Link encap:Ethernet� HWaddr 00:14:A4:70:02:3E
inet addr:192.168.12.100� Bcast:192.168.12.255� Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:a4ff:fe70:23e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST� MTU:1500� Metric:1
RX packets:8945 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5854116 [...]

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Very interesting to see progress of ZFS in FreeBSD, comitted in FreeBSD 7 ( will release in 2007). This excellent job done by Pawel Jakub Dawidek with collaboration with opensolaris  for suitable patch .
Many feature that ZFS offer that make me hard to blink till see last pages of presentation
Pawel also give quick guide to [...]

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During my last search on eaccelerator progress ( in time of writing 0.9.5) i found new link to another php cache :
xcache
since it’s made by author of lighttpd i’m eager to try it out in my freebsd server.
1. updating freebsd ports
2. install from ports
# cd /usr/ports/www/xcache && make install
3. Copying ini file
# cp /usr/local/share/examples/xcache/xcache.ini [...]

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