Since this may by of interest to others, including those maintaining ports,
I've just created a dump of the history data for ports and versions reported in
… not the reporting ports is optional, there appears to only be about 10% of
the hosts that report in port information …
The dump is avail
On Sep 14, 2006, at 6:33 AM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
On 13 September 2006, at 15:25, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
On the other hand, you might have heard that Mac OS X is based on
FreeBSD.
Although it is based on BSD, I don't think it's FreeBSD it was
based on. I think it goes al
On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:11 PM, felix.schalck wrote:
Hello in there,
I'm kind of complicated person, so finding o good OS was really a
pity for me. I googled around a lot, installed a lot and often get
disappointed... until I discovered FreeBSD. Folks, this OS ist
simply great because it i
On 13 September 2006, at 15:25, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
On the other hand, you might have heard that Mac OS X is based on
FreeBSD.
Although it is based on BSD, I don't think it's FreeBSD it was based
on. I think it goes all the way back to 4.2BSD. Or something.
They removed all the cle
On Sep 13, 2006, at 2:16 PM, felix.schalck wrote:
Do you think the interest that mac developpers pay on freebsd-
stable is a good thing for FreeBSD ? I mean: for further
developpement and general supporting of the OS ?
Sure. But the effect is better observed by noticing which parts of
one
"Evolution of Mac OS X
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD): Part of the history of Mac OS X
goes back to Berkeley Software Distributions (BSD) UNIX of the early
seventies. Specifically, Mac OS X is based in part on BSD 4.4 Lite.
On a system level, many of the design decisions are made t
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
Unfortunately, Mac OS games just don't run on anything but Mac OS
itself. Many Linux games and some windows ones run flawlessly on
FreeBSD, though, with no or subtle performance penalties.
For commercial game software, Andrew is certainly ri
On 9/13/06, felix.schalck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello in there,
I'm kind of complicated person, so finding o good OS was really a pity
for me. I googled around a lot, installed a lot and often get
disappointed... until I discovered FreeBSD. Folks, this OS ist simply
great because it is CLEA
In a message dated 1/14/05 7:07:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Why doesn't someone just answer the question? When Watson finally
>> admitted publically that 5.x has networking issues it ended the last
>> discussion. Just answer the question.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why doesn't someone just answer the question? When Watson finally
admitted publically that 5.x has networking issues it ended the last
discussion. Just answer the question.
Focusing on one cludge is meaningless - who cares if your network is a
little slow, or just slower
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:36:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/14/05 2:05:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >It's too bad he's now choosing to be even more antisocial
> >by changing his email address to avoid the procmail filters of those
> >for
In a message dated 1/14/05 2:05:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>It's too bad he's now choosing to be even more antisocial
>by changing his email address to avoid the procmail filters of those
>for whom his rantings have lost their amusementKris
No, I've changed my address
In a message dated 1/14/05 1:54:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> So your claim that its a "heavy-duty server" platform is tainted by the
>> fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the
>> slower,
>> still-under-development 5.x. Which seems
In a message dated 1/14/05 1:46:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
On Jan 14, 2005, at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid
>> attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version
>> avail
Paul Schmehl writes:
PS> Not to pick a nit...well, ok...to pick a nit...developers do not
PS> support systems. Support organizations do. If you're going to be
PS> using FreeBSD in a corporate environment then you need to find a
PS> good *support* company that can backstop your local admins. *Then*
--On Friday, January 14, 2005 10:32:08 PM +0100 Anthony Atkielski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is, IMO, the single greatest obstacles to using FreeBSD in
corporate and mission-critical environments, and it's the main reason
why I'd be extremely hesitant about recommending FreeBSD in such
enviro
Len Zettel writes:
LZ> Better to expend resources on making 5.3 faster than 4.10 on all
LZ> chipsets or retrofit 4.10 to the new ones?
New OS versions should always provide either better functionality with
the same performance, or better performance with the same functionality.
Ideally they'd pro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fac> The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have
Fac> paid attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the
Fac> fastest version available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs
Fac> because it doesnt support the necessary chipsets ...
While
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-freebsd->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:43 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Thank you!
>
>In a message dated 1/13/05
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid
attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version
available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs because it doesnt
support the necessary chipsets, AND, that freebsd "people" woul
>
> ... Much misc drivel excised.
>
> > > rather ridicule people that ask why than fix things.
> > >
> > > So your claim that its a "heavy-duty server" platform is tainted by the
> > > fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the
> > > slower,
> > > still-under-developm
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You really don't know what you're talking about Jerry (as usual), so
why make comments when you never seem to understand the context?
He asked a question and the response was "why dont you donate your
hardware to a freebsd developer".
What's "juvenile" i
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:05:40PM +, Len Zettel wrote:
> On Friday 14 January 2005 05:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In a message dated 1/13/05 11:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > BS> Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
> > BS
> In a message dated 1/13/05 9:05:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >Someone who begins with their first post on the questions list with
> >invective and insults instead of asking a question will, not surprisingly,
> >not receive much positive response. People here are i
That always cheerful and bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
So your claim that its a "heavy-duty server" platform is tainted by the
fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the
slower,
still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S
that is tr
>
> In a message dated 1/13/05 11:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> BS> Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
> BS> that need support for the latest hardware.
>
> >It's not a question of latest, it's a question of which hardware.
> >FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/14/05 1:07:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S
that is trying to establish itself as a choice as a server platform.
Not necessarily. The interesting ques
On Jan 14, 2005, at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid
attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version
available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs because it doesnt
support the necessary chipsets,
L
In a message dated 1/13/05 9:05:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Someone who begins with their first post on the questions list with
>invective and insults instead of asking a question will, not surprisingly,
>not receive much positive response. People here are interested
In a message dated 1/14/05 8:12:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> People on the FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux mailing lists are very
> kind and help you in any case, if you ask questions politely and you
> have searched and read tha manuals first.
> So, why do we start always
In a message dated 1/14/05 1:07:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>> still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S
>> that is trying to establish itself as a choice as a server platform.
>
>Not necessarily. The interesting question hasn't been addressed
On Friday 14 January 2005 05:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/13/05 11:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> BS> Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
> BS> that need support for the latest hardware.
>
> >It's not a question
In a message dated 1/13/05 11:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BS> Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
BS> that need support for the latest hardware.
>It's not a question of latest, it's a question of which hardware.
>FreeBSD, like all operat
Ramiro Aceves writes:
RA> I do not like to start wars among free OSes, I enjoy fighting the
RA> Bill OSes.
There are plenty of challenging video games on the market if you like to
fight.
RA> For me, making the war against Bill OSes means using Free Software
RA> OSes (Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, lord grinny wrote:
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
RA> So, why do we start always the war? The real war
should be against the
RA> Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us.
Professionals and serious amateurs in IT never wage
"wars" at all.
Don't they?? Then
OK we get it you don't like freeBSD.
Now shut up and quit wasting everyones bandwidth
On Jan 13, 2005, at 7:40 PM, Boris Spirialitious wrote:
Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing
me.
Boris
Jerry McAllist
martin hudec wrote:
MH> Hello,
MH>
MH> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:13:04PM +0100 or thereabouts, RA>>miro
Aceves wrote:
MH>
RA>>If you argue that, you do not know Linux well. When I speak about
Linux,
RA>>I mean Debian or Gentoo. I do not think that they are chaothic or
RA>>intended for desktop. D
On Friday 14 January 2005 05:13 am, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD Friends.
>
> I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on
> anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my
> engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy,
> etc.)
On Friday 14 January 2005 06:43 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> lord grinny writes:
>
> lg> Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about?
>
> Business.
I respectfully disagree. Business is people. People who do business
well abhor lawsuits.
"Lawyers are like nuclear missiles -- they have
On 2005-01-14 13:34, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ramiro Aceves writes:
>> So, why do we start always the war? The real war should be against the
>> Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us.
>
> Professionals and serious amateurs in IT never wage "wars" at all.
Well said.
__
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:41:03AM -0800 or thereabouts, lord grinny wrote:
> Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about?
Simple, dear Watson. About human stupidity and greed.
Cheers,
Martin
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lord grinny writes:
lg> Don't they?? Then what are all the law suits about?
Business.
--
Anthony
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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>Ramiro Aceves writes:
>
>RA> So, why do we start always the war? The real war
should be against the
>RA> Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us.
>
>Professionals and serious amateurs in IT never wage
"wars" at all.
>
>
>
Don't they?? Then what are all the law sui
Ramiro Aceves writes:
RA> So, why do we start always the war? The real war should be against the
RA> Bill Gates OSes, instead of fighting among us.
Professionals and serious amateurs in IT never wage "wars" at all.
--
Anthony
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:13:04PM +0100 or thereabouts, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> If you argue that, you do not know Linux well. When I speak about Linux,
> I mean Debian or Gentoo. I do not think that they are chaothic or
> intended for desktop. Debian put all the pieces together in one OS
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello FreeBSD Friends.
I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on
anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my
engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy,
etc.). I come from a happy Debian GNU/Linux exper
Hello FreeBSD Friends.
I have just arrived to the FreeBSD world. I am not an expert on
anything, I am only a computer fan and use my computer mainly for my
engineering work and hobbies (amateur radio, photography, astronomy,
etc.). I come from a happy Debian GNU/Linux experience. I paid
attent
Boris Spirialitious writes:
BS> Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
BS> that need support for the latest hardware.
It's not a question of latest, it's a question of which hardware.
FreeBSD, like all operating systems, targets a broad but not universal
user base, and
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote:
Boris Spirialitious wrote:
It's like Dave Horsfall wrote:
_
/| /| | | |
||__|| | |Please do not|
/ O O\__ | feed the
Boris Spirialitious wrote:
Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing
me.
Boris
Personally I moved away from Linux because of all the support problems
it had, I've learned more about UNIX from the 1 1/2 ye
Boris Spirialitious wrote:
It's like Dave Horsfall wrote:
_
/| /| | | |
||__|| | |Please do not|
/ O O\__ | feed the |
/
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing
me.
Thought you decided to leave.
That's why I said 'Bye'
Someone who begins with their first post on the questions list with
invective and
>
> Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
> that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing
> me.
Thought you decided to leave.
That's why I said 'Bye'
Someone who begins with their first post on the questions list with
invective and insults instea
Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies
that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing
me.
Boris
Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed
> to linux and our application
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:57:49 -0800 (PST)
Boris Spirialitious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed
> to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I
> report a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like fr
On Jan 13 at 09:57, Boris Spirialitious vomited up some 1's and 0's
thusly:
> I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed
> to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report
> a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like freebsd do th
On 13/01/05 09:57 -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote:
> I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed
> to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report
> a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like freebsd do they
> make fun of me or as
Hello,
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:57:49AM -0800 or thereabouts, Boris Spirialitious
wrote:
> I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed
> to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report
> a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not lik
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Boris Spirialitious wrote:
I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed
to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report
a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like freebsd do they
make fun of me or ask me to give
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:57:49AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote:
> I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed
> to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report
> a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like freebsd do they
> mak
>
> I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed
> to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report
> a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like freebsd do they
> make fun of me or ask me to give them hardware. Its like a real produ
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 07:57 pm, Ara Avvali wrote:
> I would love to send a big hug to people who helped me here about my
> question regarding the update process
> everything is fine now :-D
> love you all
> lol ;-)
Welcome to FreeBSD and the FreeBSD community.
Enjoy.
:-)
Hi, this is Terence's spam blocker. Apparently this is the first time he's getting
email from this reply-to email address. Just follow the link and answer the simple
question to verify you are a human not a spam-bot and I'll get the message. [was
getting 1000 spam a day; now, zippo!].
Thanks
> Curious, what if I want either option. In other words, when I boot up the
> machine it shows the gdm login, but if I want a console login can I just hit
> Alt-F2?
Yes. ALT+Fn, n=1, ... 8 will give you virtual terminals, ALT+F9 brings
you back to X.
The virtual terminals are defined in /etc/tty
Curious, what if I want either option. In other words, when I boot up
the
machine it shows the gdm login, but if I want a console login can I just
hit
Alt-F2?
I would just try it out myself, but currently my only running FreeBSD
machine is a fileserver.
You'll have to hit Ctrl + Alt + F2 to get
> > > I searched your site, but my burning question is, How
> > > do I start the Graphical Interfaces, KDE and Gnome? I
> > > did a Custom Installation following the directions of
> > > the website. I installed all the packages and Ports. I
> > > want to learn everything.
> >
> > I don't know abou
> > I searched your site, but my burning question is, How
> > do I start the Graphical Interfaces, KDE and Gnome? I
> > did a Custom Installation following the directions of
> > the website. I installed all the packages and Ports. I
> > want to learn everything.
>
> I don't know about gnome but fo
Khoi - San Zulu wrote:
I am of the understanding that the Operating System
loves command line. I dont feel that I am at that
level yet to configure from the command line.
Make sure you read the "New to Unix" guide on
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/index.html
and y
On Thursday 22 January 2004 09:44, Khoi - San Zulu wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I would like to extend to you, whomever you are, my
> heartfelt gratitude for this operating system.
>
> I come from a poor community in the heart of South
> Africa. I learned about computers and how they work,
> using Micros
On Thursday 22 January 2004 12:44 am, Khoi - San Zulu wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I would like to extend to you, whomever you are, my
> heartfelt gratitude for this operating system.
>
> I come from a poor community in the heart of South
> Africa. I learned about computers and how they work,
> using Mic
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