The pcbsd project which uses FreeBSD is another option.
On Aug 20, 2012 11:31 PM, wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote:
>
> I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if
>> there
>> is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware
>> comp
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote:
I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there
is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware
comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts.
If don't want to mak
Hi,
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:43:35 -0400
Tyler Campbell wrote:
> Is there a list of parts for building a personal computer or do you
> just read through the hardware list?
if you use big names like Asus, nothing should go wrong.
I would avoid Intel's integrated graphics. As the support for it is
I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there
is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware
comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts.
If don't want to make the full commitment to building a desktop, a g
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Tyler Campbell <
ty...@tristatesafeandlock.com> wrote:
> Is there a list of parts for building a personal computer or do you just
> read through the hardware list?
>
Usually everything works on standard consumer hardware...defer to big name
where possible eg intel
Is there a list of parts for building a personal computer or do you just read
through the hardware list?
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>> Are you running pecl-APC? If so, what version? There's a major issue with
>> the
>> latest.
>
>Hmmn, that might have been it.
>
>I backed down to 5.3, but when I have a chance I'll try 5.4 again without
>APC.
Tried it without APC, didn't help. We're back to the theory that there's
something
On 6:56:26PM, Locksmith wrote:
> I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there
> is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware
> comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts.
The handbook is always a good place to start.
http://www.
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is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware
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mail(1) man page says:
~R string
Use string as the Reply-To field.
However, this doesn't seem to work for me.
Hitting ~R doesn't have any effect at all.
The man page also has:
REPLYTO If set, will be used to initialize the Reply-To field for outgo-
ing mess
Are you running pecl-APC? If so, what version? There's a major issue with the
latest.
Hmmn, that might have been it.
I backed down to 5.3, but when I have a chance I'll try 5.4 again without
APC.
R's,
John
John R. Levine wrote:
>> Then perhaps you should downgrade to lang/php53 and lang/php53-extensions
>> and compare the results!
>
> Good thought, I just did that. Results:
>
> php5.3: works fine as far as I can tell
>
> php5.4: fails in random ways
>
> This suggests there is a bug in 5.4 which
Good thought, I just did that. Results:
php5.3: works fine as far as I can tell
php5.4: fails in random ways
This suggests there is a bug in 5.4 which only is apparent on FreeBSD 8.x.
I note that the packages for 8.x have gone away on the distribution server,
so I expect they're not regression
Are you running pecl-APC? If so, what version? There's a major issue with
the latest.
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 06:28:57PM +, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the flavor, containing:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:05:17 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
> > > > which work out of the box on 9.0-STA
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:57:14 -0500, wrote:
Support for "FLASH" basically sucks.
Please stop trolling. I've been using flash with zero issues for 3 years.
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:02 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
> Then perhaps you should downgrade to lang/php53 and lang/php53-extensions
>> and compare the results!
>>
>
> Good thought, I just did that. Results:
>
> php5.3: works fine as far as I can tell
>
> php5.4: fails in random ways
>
> This su
On 20 Aug 2012 16:46:13 -
John Levine articulated:
> I have a fully patche amd64 freebsd 8.3 server with apache 2.2 and
> PHP 5.4.5.
>
> In the past day, php scripts have started failing with a variety of
> random errors, they hang, errors claiming that builtins like
> require_once() are not
Then perhaps you should downgrade to lang/php53 and lang/php53-extensions
and compare the results!
Good thought, I just did that. Results:
php5.3: works fine as far as I can tell
php5.4: fails in random ways
This suggests there is a bug in 5.4 which only is apparent on FreeBSD 8.x.
I note t
nice ad hominem screed
On 08/20/2012 12:57, Jerry wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:40:40 + (UTC)
> jb articulated:
>
>> This is a bad thing for all UNIX or UNIX-like ecosystems, performed
>> under the noble flag of "progress" to neutralize and fight opposition.
> Do you have any idea how idioti
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:40:40 + (UTC)
jb articulated:
> This is a bad thing for all UNIX or UNIX-like ecosystems, performed
> under the noble flag of "progress" to neutralize and fight opposition.
Do you have any idea how idiotic that statement sounds? What are you
planning on doing? Are you g
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:18 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
> I've done all the usual voodoo repair: I have rebuilt apache, php, and
>>> all the php modules from source, and rebooted, and it didn't help.
>>>
>>
> Did you also rebuilt lang/php5-extensions for the modules you need?
>>
>
> Uh, yes, I
== jb wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 17:40:40 + ==
> The end effect is, they consciously want to screw up Linux and non-Linux
> (UNIX,
> *BSD, etc) ecosystems that opt not to follow them (read some additional
> comments that appeared in the meantime in the comments section of
> Distrowatch).
> Th
I've done all the usual voodoo repair: I have rebuilt apache, php, and
all the php modules from source, and rebooted, and it didn't help.
Did you also rebuilt lang/php5-extensions for the modules you need?
Uh, yes, I said that I did.
Regards,
John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:46 PM, John Levine wrote:
> I have a fully patche amd64 freebsd 8.3 server with apache 2.2 and PHP
> 5.4.5.
>
> In the past day, php scripts have started failing with a variety of random
> errors,
> they hang, errors claiming that builtins like require_once() are not
> f
games/quake2max is a good one...At least it was years ago when I tried
it. I see nothing in the Makefile that will prevent it from building on
amd64.
Cheers,
Josh
On 8/20/12 12:16 PM, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:05:17 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
Please advis
Polytropon wrote:
> > > > > I could also play Quake, Quake 2 from ports,
> > > > > and Jedi Knight II via wine.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, is there really nothing native?
> > >
> > > No, that game is far too old, but Quake and Quake 2 have ports
> > > (to native FreeBSD) which work very nicely with the
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:09:15 +0200
Polytropon wrote:
> I'm not sure if wine can run those native DOS games, but
> the "big" virtualisation software (VirtualBox, VMWare)
> should be able to emulate a PC, t
You don't need to go that far, dosbox will run most dos games.
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Colleagues,
Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)?
games/ioquake3
games/ioquake3-devel
games/openarena
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:46:40 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Polytropon wrote:
> > > > I could also play Quake, Quake 2 from ports,
> > > > and Jedi Knight II via wine.
> > >
> > > Oh, is there really nothing native?
> >
> > No, that game is far too old, but Quake and Quake 2 have ports
> > (to n
Polytropon wrote:
[dd]
> >
> > Which port is it? "make search key=lsdldoom" finds nothing.
>
> Oh, it's "doomlegacy".
Thanks, will look at it.
>
>
>
> > > I could also play Quake, Quake 2 from ports,
> > > and Jedi Knight II via wine.
> >
> > Oh, is there really nothing native?
>
> No,
Yuri Pankov wrote:
> >
> > Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
> > which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have
> > tried work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g.
> >
> > games/uhexen: http://pastebin.com/ZaJ74eaa
> >
> > games/doom:
Mark Felder wrote:
> Those in on the core teams here are very well aware. Did you notice we've
> survived this long without ALSA? :-) However, this is very good reading
> for anyone who hasn't looked at Linux lately, and it's worth mentioning
> that this is snowballing quickly. I used to really li
Jerry seibercom.net> writes:
>
> > However, the influence of their employer
> > is so big that these products are forced upon the wider UNIX
> > community and at some point it will be "assimilate or die".
> ...
> Personally, I embrace progress. Even if there are ten failures in a
> row, that one
Walter Hurry wrote:
>
> prboom works flawlessly on my FreeBSD9 laptop.
Wow! This one really works and looks like the good old Doom, music and
sound and all. Thank you Walter!
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:05:17 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Polytropon wrote:
> > >
> > > Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
> > > which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have
> > > tried work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g.
>
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:32 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Colleagues,
Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have
tried work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g.
games/uhexen: http://pastebin.c
Polytropon wrote:
> >
> > Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
> > which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have
> > tried work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g.
> >
> > games/uhexen: http://pastebin.com/ZaJ74eaa
>
> MIDI load fai
I have a fully patche amd64 freebsd 8.3 server with apache 2.2 and PHP 5.4.5.
In the past day, php scripts have started failing with a variety of random
errors,
they hang, errors claiming that builtins like require_once() are not found, and
other stuff. I don't see any pattern. I also can't fig
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:32 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection which
> work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have tried
> work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g.
>
> games/uhexen: http
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:32 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
> which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have
> tried work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g.
>
> games/uhexen: http:
Colleagues,
Please advise if there are any 3D shooters in the ports collection
which work out of the box on 9.0-STABLE (amd64)? None of those I have
tried work for a number of irritating reasons, like e.g.
games/uhexen: http://pastebin.com/ZaJ74eaa
games/doom: http://pastebin.com/XdrCwzvn
games
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:09:12 + (UTC)
jb articulated:
> here is an interesting comment (basically echoing other people's
> view) on Linux developments:
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120820
> Reader Comments
> "1 o Arch and systemd (by Microlinux on 201
> If you're building your own customised kernel, why don't you just build the
> entire system from source? I've not used freebsd-update yet and probably
> won't. Is it just a matter of time, i.e. waiting for the compilation to
> finish?
Actually I built this system from source. And now use free
Those in on the core teams here are very well aware. Did you notice we've
survived this long without ALSA? :-) However, this is very good reading
for anyone who hasn't looked at Linux lately, and it's worth mentioning
that this is snowballing quickly. I used to really like some Linux
distro
== Denis wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 16:41:56 +0400 ==
> > Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update
> > update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it
> > won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf:
> >
> > kernel="mykernel"
> > bootfile="/boot/mykernel/ker
== Polytropon wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 14:22:45 +0200 ==
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:38:33 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > I always keep saying the ideal
> > situation would be that you could customise and compile just your own
> > really mission critical software and freely mix that with installin
Hi,
here is an interesting comment (basically echoing other people's view) on
Linux developments:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120820
Reader Comments
"1 o Arch and systemd (by Microlinux on 2012-08-20 10:11:39 GMT from France)
Much has been said on the subject of Syste
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:46:30 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Polytropon writes:
>
> > > Very good point! I'd clear the /usr/src/obj directory as pointed out,
> > > then build a generic kenel, install it and boot from it. Then you
> > > know you've got a working kernel to fall back on.
> >
> >
Polytropon writes:
> > Very good point! I'd clear the /usr/src/obj directory as pointed out,
> > then build a generic kenel, install it and boot from it. Then you
> > know you've got a working kernel to fall back on.
>
> You could then make a copy of that kernel, e. g. from its initial
> i
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:13:44 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> == Michael Powell wrote on Sun 19.Aug'12 at 19:43:14 -0400 ==
>
> > Keep in mind whenever you install a new kernel your present kernel (and its
> > matching modules) get moved to kernel.old. What this means is that the
> > GENERIC y
== Jerry wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 8:11:17 -0400 ==
> I inquired several years ago about the possibility of changing the
> renaming format into something like: "kernel_##_YY-MM-DD.old". The "##"
> would be incremented with each successive build on a given day. I
> thought it would alleviate jus
== Michael Powell wrote on Sun 19.Aug'12 at 19:43:14 -0400 ==
> Keep in mind whenever you install a new kernel your present kernel (and its
> matching modules) get moved to kernel.old. What this means is that the
> GENERIC you have with a base install will be moved to kernel.old and can be
> us
How do I add an CA Certificate for Mercurial on FreeBSD please?
:; uname -a
FreeBSD box2 9.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Aug 17 21:53:39
EEST 2012 root@box2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
:; pkg_info -xc mercurial | sed 1q
Information for mercurial-2.3:
Thanks.
> Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update
> update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it
> won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf:
>
> kernel="mykernel"
> bootfile="/boot/mykernel/kernel"
>
> Now freebsd-update can happily alter the default kernel w
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:37:40 +0400, Denis wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> > Have you rebuilt your custom kernel after ?
> > This is described in the Handbook in the section 25.2.2
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
>
> Yes, I rebuilt my
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:38:33 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> I always keep saying the ideal
> situation would be that you could customise and compile just your own
> really mission critical software and freely mix that with installing
> pre-compiled packages of anything else from the public reposito
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:43:14 -0400
Michael Powell articulated:
{snip}
> Keep in mind whenever you install a new kernel your present kernel
> (and its matching modules) get moved to kernel.old. What this means
> is that the GENERIC you have with a base install will be moved to
> kernel.old and can
Hi Alexandre,
> Have you rebuilt your custom kernel after ?
> This is described in the Handbook in the section 25.2.2
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
Yes, I rebuilt my custom kernel after. But this doesn't help - every
time I run "
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Denis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have FreeBSD 9.0 (p4) with custom kernel.
>
> "uname -i" says it:
> HOMEWIFI90
>
> However, when I run "freebsd-update fetch" command it would like to
> update my kernel as well:
>
> freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org m
Hi,
I have FreeBSD 9.0 (p4) with custom kernel.
"uname -i" says it:
HOMEWIFI90
However, when I run "freebsd-update fetch" command it would like to
update my kernel as well:
freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
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