Re: options used to compile packages

Hi, When I did the test, I used FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using the ports collection delivered with this distribution. Yesterday I did a checkout of the latest ports tree. I compiled bash, xorg, xfce and gdm using the default options. When trying to login using gdm, it still complains about a missing key

Re: options used to compile packages

David Arendt wrote: > Hi, > > well I don't actually now which package it was, but I compiled gdm (so > it should be one of it's dependencies). A compilation resulted in a non > working gdm (something with pam support not found on execution). Upon > installing gdm and is dependencies from packages

Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather interesting post this morning. "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore"

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? You haven't said what about an ordinary "shutdown -r" isn't satisfactory, but we have an iboot gizmo http://dataprobe.com/remo

Re: options used to compile packages

On 7/17/11, David Arendt wrote: > When I did the test, I used FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using the ports collection > delivered with this distribution. > I see. Since that time, there have been very few changes to the version of the base system used to build the packages for 8, but more to some of the po

boot/loader splash image

hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap on screen for bootup - have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...) and followed instructions using following val

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

Hi, On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 07:10:59 -0400 Jerry wrote: J> "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore" J> J> J> J> Interestingly enough, a great deal of it is true. It might be J> interesting to kno

Help needed : My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing

Hi all, My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing - power off in a flash with no warning. I can't imagine what might be the problem. I ran memtest86+ and it cleared Pass 1 with no errors. Win XP runs without any problems. I have pasted below XP Device Manager's system summary

loader.conf options

hey am trying to configure my new system (FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC amd64 - on an intel core 2 duo) and find all possible settings to tweak i can tell from documentation that there are many options possible with /boot/loader.conf as well as others though i cannot find any definitive list i am sur

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 17.07.2011 13:10, Jerry wrote: > While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of > juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather > interesting post this morning. > > "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore" > >

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

Hi All of us know that in many cases BSD do not concede technically Linux. However is the fact. The quantity of the companies using FreeBSD catastrophically decreases! In what a problem? As I see one of popularization's problems - there is no information on innovations (DTRACE, ccTCP, VIMAGE, HAST

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

Op 17-7-2011 14:17 schreef Subbsd: community decreases. It is a pity that many developers of FreeBSD have left in Apple, the small part works over {NET,OPEN,DRAGONFLY}.BSD but as a whole it already absolutely small small groups of people. And do you feel this will be the end of FreeBSD?

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jerry wrote: > While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of > juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather > interesting post this morning. > > "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore" > >

boot/loader splash image

hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...) and followed instructions using following values

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 07/17/11 07:43 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 17-7-2011 14:17 schreef Subbsd: community decreases. It is a pity that many developers of FreeBSD have left in Apple, the small part works over {NET,OPEN,DRAGONFLY}.BSD but as a whole it already absolutely small small groups of people. And do you

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 07/17/11 07:24 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: However, what worries me is how influential he is in some open source projects. He suggested that Gnome should be Linux specific because trying to keep compatibility with other UNIX systems (BSD for example) holds them from going further in the d

Re: loader.conf options

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, wayne mitchell wrote: am trying to configure my new system (FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC amd64 - on an intel core 2 duo) I'd suggest upgrading to 8.2-RELEASE or 8-STABLE. and find all possible settings to tweak i can tell from documentation that there are many options pos

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

I'd feel better about the company if they used English correctly and didn't have a bunch of HTML bombs. On Jul 17, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > >> In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said: >>> Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

--As of July 17, 2011 8:13:13 PM +0700, "C. Bergström" is alleged to have said: 1) Why care about *BSD as a desktop? 2) Why care about *BSD as a workstation? (Which I see as a next level in stability/usability beyond a toy "desktop") --As for the rest, it is mine. Because it is easier to get

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Jerry wrote: While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather interesting post this morning. "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore"

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011/7/17 "C. Bergström" : >  On 07/17/11 07:24 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: >> >> However, what worries me is how influential he is in some open source >> projects. He suggested that Gnome should be Linux specific because >> trying to keep compatibility with other UNIX systems (BSD for example)

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

> > The FreeBSD pieces work better. Does Linux have some advantages? Yes. Does > FreeBSD have some deficiencies? Yes. > > There, I said it. I'm over it now. > > ++1 I completely agree, as a server OS FreeBSD hands down rocks The only reason i can see netcraft making suh states is because of virtual

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergström wrote: > In the specific case about Gnome - really if you care so much then you > can submit patches and contribute. If nobody is willing to do the work > (scratch the itch) then ultimately it really doesn't matter. > > I hope gnome does do this.. Ma

Re: boot/loader splash image

wayne mitchell wrote: hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...) and followed instruction

Re: boot/loader splash image

Sunday, July 17, 2011, 6:07:57 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > wayne mitchell wrote: >> hey >> got question/problem for /boot/loader >> >> system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC >> >> trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup >> >> >> have read man

Re: boot/loader splash image

Fbsd8 writes: > wayne mitchell wrote: >> hey >> got question/problem for /boot/loader >> >> system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC >> >> trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup >> >> >> have read man page for all boot associated stuff (

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergström wrote: In the specific case about Gnome - really if you care so much then you can submit patches and contribute. If nobody is willing to do the work (scratch the itch) then ultimately it really doesn't matter.

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > and cloud computing instances anyway, Name one cloud provider providing > FreeBSD 8x or 9X > to run as instances. I know of one coming... question is are there > others > There are plenty already. Rootbsd for one, among others. Also th

Re: What is xz ?

On 12 July 2011 10:02, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> > Correct. I'm currently on 7-STABLE where it's "not yet" part of >> > the base system, but my new 8.2-STABLE also has it in /usr/bin. >> > I believe it has been introduced with version 8... >> >> It is part of  '7.2-R

Re: ghghg

On 14 July 2011 00:48, Gary Kline wrote: > testing > Error reading intarnet (A)bort (R)etry (F)ail? -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > >> and cloud computing instances anyway, Name one cloud provider providing >> FreeBSD 8x or 9X >> to run as instances. I know of one coming... question is are there >> others >> >

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

I am working on making a general purpose image for XEN (specifically for rack space but since it is a common framework attempting to make it vendor neutral) On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 17, 20

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

Joshua Isom wrote: > On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > > On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergstr??m wrote: > >> I hope gnome does [go Linux-only].. Maybe then more > >> people would forget about it and focus on making KDE better ;) ... > What about enlightenment? For us old-timers :)

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 7/18/2011 8:05 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergstr??m wrote: I hope gnome does [go Linux-only].. Maybe then more people would forget about it and focus on making KDE better ;) ... What ab