On 10/25/2010 09:18 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
I have not looked at PC-BSD because I thought the BSD's were all
somewhat similar (powerful, stable, and secure). I only moved off of
Debian due to feature bloat and the 'Fedoraizing' it (debian) is
experiencing. Richard Bejtlich talks so hig
Oops;
Originally sent this to the poster and not the list. Sorry.
Original Message
Subject:Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:27:56 -0500
From: Michael D. Norwick
To: Warren Block
On 10/25/10 21:52, Warren Block wrote
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:58:08 -0500, Ian Gibson wrote:
> What's the situation re: PC-BSD? I thought they were 'FreeBSD on the
> desktop', leaving FreeBSD itself to focus on being a great server OS.
FreeBSD per definition is a multi-purpose OS. It can be used on
servers (and often is), on desktops
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:25, Michael D. Norwick
wrote:
> 4 weeks ago I backed up all my data and reformatted from Debian 'lenny' to
> GPT/ZFS/8.1-RELEASE. The next two weeks did not go so well. While I tried
> hard to get ZFS formatted drives to work reliably, intermittent unexplained
> core d
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
I spoke a little too soon. I was UPGRADING to KDE4 4.5.2 as I was typing the
message. 'portupgrade kde4' was @ approx. 38% when it error'd out on
something about 'kdelibs4-4.4.5' too old. Going to /usr/ports/kdelibs4 and
'make clean', 'make', bo
On 10/25/10 20:11, Brandon Gooch wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyer wrote:
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this
going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team.
I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> Good Day;
>
> It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an
> operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5,
> KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3,
> an
What's the situation re: PC-BSD? I thought they were 'FreeBSD on the
desktop', leaving FreeBSD itself to focus on being a great server OS.
Isn't the whole point of PC-BSD to remove the need to do what the OP did
i.e. spend days or weeks installing and configuring FreeBSD with desktop
applicati
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyer wrote:
> The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this
> going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team.
>
> I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we should
> have scripts that describe
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this
going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team.
I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we should
have scripts that describe every aspect of a computer, so that such scripts
can be mecha
Good Day;
It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an
operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5,
KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as
Firefox3, and Thunderbird 3.1.5. The machine is an older Dell GX270 P4
2.4 GHz
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