Re: Which Release

2012-08-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/14/2012 02:29 PM, Rich wrote: o the AMD64 is out, the i386 is out, and here I bog down, Can you please help? AFAIK it's AMD64. -- RMA. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Alessandro Spinella wrote: On 10/14/11 18:22, Odhiambo Washington wrote: +1 FreeBSD-9 Codename Ritchie. agree_counter++; agreed. -- RMA. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-30 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/24/2011 09:34 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: I am from Linux (Debian & Ubuntu) and I will have to intensively use FreeBSD on servers (DNS, Database, Routing...) I would like to install a FreeBSD on my laptop (Dell Inspiron, or some Asus not defined yet) and then virtualize a lot

Re: Hi

2011-08-30 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/30/2011 01:06 AM, Daniel Staal wrote: FreeBSD may not be for you at this time. I did not dare, but I agree with you for Spencer's case. -- RMA. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Hi

2011-08-29 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/29/2011 12:09 AM, Spencer Thompson wrote: Dear FreeBSD.org, Hi, I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad. What is the best package to get? Will it work perfectly? "Working perfectly" depends on your usage. If some here tells you "yes" (or "no"), without asking for

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/25/2011 07:39 AM, Polytropon wrote: > [...] and you have to get all the strange concepts in line, beginning with "drive letters" and ending in reboots after few changes.:-) The FreeBSD documentation even keeps that in mind: It mentions the "Windows" terms for things just in case some reade

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/24/2011 03:33 PM, RW wrote: > I was reading I think it wasnebsd-us...@betbsd.org a few days back, > quite an interesting thread about para-virtualization support, > it seems NetBSD may have more support support there&/or with Xen. IIRC the Xen project itself provided host support for

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/24/2011 11:41 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Probably start by installing PC-BSD -- that's based on FreeBSD but tailored to providing the sort of desktop environment you'ld want on a laptop. I made search before posting and it also seems a good directoin to take. Virtualization is actually a

to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I am from Linux (Debian & Ubuntu) and I will have to intensively use FreeBSD on servers (DNS, Database, Routing...) I would like to install a FreeBSD on my laptop (Dell Inspiron, or some Asus not defined yet) and then virtualize a lot (KVM seems OK) in order to get used. For the in