how do you switch between wireless networks?
I just got my wireless connection working with a new PCMCIA card. But I'm still naming the wireless network in my rc.conf file. (DHCP connection) But as I go to join other wireless DHCP networks around the world, what's the best way to switch to that network without rebooting to do it from rc.conf? If there's a tutorial about this kind of thing (besides /handbook/network-wireless.html) - please point me there. Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do you switch between wireless networks?
I just got my wireless connection working with a new PCMCIA card. But I'm still naming the wireless network in my rc.conf file. (DHCP connection) But as I go to join other wireless DHCP networks around the world, what's the best way to switch to that network without rebooting to do it from rc.conf? ifconfig interface ssid ssidofwirelessnetwork ip netmask netmask should do that trick without rebooting. What I couldn't find in the handbook was how to do this for DHCP? If I don't know the IP or netmask, and want to let the DHCP server decide, how to I tell that to ifconfig? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ITunes app or player
Do we happen to have a port that can make use of ITunes? Moreover - the files
you purchase from them. I think the file extension is m4p.
They're locked Digital Rights Management-controlled AAC files.
Unfortunately you can only play them in real Apple iTunes player or transfer them to
an iPod.
LUCKILY : as with ALL of the download services (most of which use Windows Media
format),
you can just click the {BURN TO CD} button, and burn an audio CD, then pop it in
your
FreeBSD machine and rip it to FLAC or MP3 or OGG or whatever you want.
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Re: ITunes app or player
LUCKILY : as with ALL of the download services (most of which use Windows
Media format), you can just click the {BURN TO CD} button, and burn an
audio CD, then pop it in your FreeBSD machine and rip it to FLAC or MP3 or
OGG or whatever you want.
As true as the above may be, and as lazy as I can be - I was hoping for a more
logical (for lack of a better term) way of playing them. Perhaps I was
looking for a app that might play them in their native format.
Yeah. Shit outta luck, though.
My company is one of the main ones actually delivering and encoding all the
audio to Apple iTunes. We use all FreeBSD machines for storage, but have
to use actual Apple iTunes software for encoding and listening.
There's no other way. I've tried.
Hey if you don't know the FLAC audio format, you should. Especially for
trans-coding other audio formats (like iTunes from CD-Rom) onto your FreeBSD
machine.
cd /usr/ports/audio/flac ; make install
It's a *lossless* copy of the audio. No compressions. Huge files but sounds great.
You can use a program like this...
cd /usr/ports/audio/abcde ; make install
... to rip your audio CDs into FLAC format.
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Re: Web Editing?
What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver, but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run Dreamweaver on FreeBSD. Quanta is your best bet. It's very similar to Homesite on Windows. (Which I think is bundled with Dreamweaver these days.) HOMEPAGE: http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ Those of you who haven't looked at it in a long time, check it out again. Tag-completion for HTML saves many keystrokes over doing things in vi/emacs. Its syntax hints for PHP are wonderful. Syntax coloring for every language (even the odd/rare ones, thanks to Kate). It's KDE-native. TO INSTALL: cd /usr/ports/www/quanta ; make install I use it about 8 hours a day for everything from HTML-making to Ruby-programming, and love it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if a file is used a lot, does it stay in a RAM cache?
If a file is loaded off the hard drive a lot, does FreeBSD keep it in RAM? For my high-traffic website, Apache+PHP, I have a PHP file that I'm going to be including a LOT. The file is 3 megs, though. Takes a few unfortunate seconds to load into memory off of disk the first time. So - what would it take to keep it in RAM instead of being loaded off of hard drive every second of the day? Does FreeBSD do that automatically or do I need some kind of accelerator app? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting real media audio ... ENCODING working?
While we're on the subject, has anyone gotten the Linux version of the Real Audio Producer (encoder) to work? It's a commercial app from RealNetworks that I downloaded and did a core dump when trying to run. (Sorry I forget details now.) Just wondering if anyone's ever successfully done RealAudio ENCODING on FreeBSD? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
most direct way to get audio file to sound card?
What's the most direct way to cat an audio file into the sound card? The FreeBSD manual talks about wavplay or mpg123 or xmms, but what if I just want to send an audio file to the sound card without an application inbetween? (Reason why - I want to make a quick shell script to play my flac audio files. I can use sox to convert to wav or raw on the fly, but still can't get it to the sound card.) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wav to mp3?
I did a make search in the ports collection and didn't see what (I think) I
need, so I'll ask here.
Is there a utility (or utilities) in ports for converting .wav files to mp3?
/usr/ports/audio/lame has really become the standard.
SO easy to use from the command-line, just do:
lame YourSong.wav
... and it will make the standard 128kbps MP3 file.
or:
lame --preset standard YourSong.wav
... and it will make a super-high-quality audiophile MP3.
If you want to do a batch, you can just use find to loop through them all like this:
cd /WAVFILES
find . -name *.wav -exec lame {} \;
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making a HUGE storage thing using hub+NFS+RAID - feedback?
Before I jump into something new, could I get some thoughts from someone who's done this kinda thing before in FreeBSD? I need at least 6 terabytes to be available all at once, NOT online but just as backup file storage. But file storage that needs to be available internally and easily to anyone in the office. So I thought the best way would be to have: - 6 boxes each with 8 200gig drives in RAID5 (1.2T each) each of them cross-connected to... - 1 box as the hub. The hub box would use NFS to mount each of the 6 boxes as if they were on the local filesystem. The hub box would be the only one directly connected to our office. The 6 boxes would only be connected to the hub. Any downside to doing this? Does NFS freak at a certain size? Is there a better way? Thanks! (We're doing audio archiving of 50,000 CDs. Yes, legal.) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to copy just part of a file?
Is there an easy built-in way to copy only part of a file? I want to take a WAV audio file and copy from #__ bytes to #___ bytes into a new file. (I'm making 30-second clips of files.) Though I found a scripting way to do it with PHP, I'm wondering if there's a more direct way to do it with basic GNU/BSD commands. Anyone? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Centrino COU working on FreeBSD?
I just wondered whether the Centrino CPU was usable in combination with FreeBSD. Yep! I'm typing on my Gateway 450x Centrino laptop in FreeBSD 4.8 now. I *LOVE* it.Looks and works wonderful. Note that the Centrino built-in wireless ethernet is not recognized, though. But everything else is perfect. If you've got other suggestions to other, better FreeBSD-compliant laptops I should buy instead, I'm listening. The ultimate source is here: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
laptop hard drive spin-down APM stuff - controllable??
Anyone who's using FreeBSD with a laptop: I'm having problems with my hard drive spinning down (sleeping) every 30 seconds. Is that something that's controllable in FreeBSD? I don't see it in BIOS. Is it a kernel thing? This thing sleeps and wakes, sleeps and wakes about every 15 seconds. Everything else is fine and it doesn't do it when I boot into Windows. Thanks for any help! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FLAC audio port in FreeBSD: boom. crash. core dump.
On a virgin FreeBSD 4.8 system, I've tried to use the FLAC audio compression port: /usr/ports/audio/flac Using no special options on a .wav file: flac mysong.wav I get Illegal instruction (core dumped). I've tried it on 3 different FreeBSD 4.8 boxes, and many different .wav files. Has anyone gotten it to work? Of course! % flac cdda.wav [snip] options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3 cdda.wav: wrote 39604764 bytes, ratio=0.598 % uname -rs FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE % uname -rs FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE Maybe you are building world/kernel/ports with the wrong optimisations (/etc/make.conf). Very strange. When I went and built from source the non-ports way it worked fine: ./configure ; gmake ; gmake install (but crashed when using make instead of gmake.) But still the standard port on a FreeBSD 4.8 system doesn't work. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FLAC audio port in FreeBSD: boom. crash. core dump.
On a virgin FreeBSD 4.8 system, I've tried to use the FLAC audio compression port: /usr/ports/audio/flac Using no special options on a .wav file: flac mysong.wav I get Illegal instruction (core dumped). I've tried it on 3 different FreeBSD 4.8 boxes, and many different .wav files. Has anyone gotten it to work? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and Windows XP
How do I get my new Win XP box to talk to me FreeBSD Server? When I try to map a drive I get : The account is not authorized to log in from this station. I think it's the Plain Text Password issue. I've dealt with it before on Win 98 but can't figure out how to configure Win XP to allow a Plain Text Password. It sounds like you're talking about Samba? If so, here's my samba config file that works with WinXP *and* Win98: (Note: I set up a username called shared as the only shared directory.) /usr/local/etc/smb.conf - [global] valid users = shared force user = shared guest account = shared default case = lower case sensitive = no remote announce = 192.168.0.5/YourWindowsWorkgroupName auto services = global default = global dns proxy = no encrypt passwords = no null passwords = yes security = share socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 max log size = 50 server string = dev netbios name = dev netbios aliases = dev workgroup = YourWindowsWorkgroupName log file = /var/log/samba.log # Share Definitions == [shared] path = /home/shared/ writable = yes force user = shared force group = shared guest account = shared public = yes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: any recommended simple text editors?????
THANK YOU to whoever recommended ee! I had never tried that little thing. It's wonderful. Though vi is good for me, I'm going to tell beginners to use ee from now on. Easiest one I've ever seen. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mysql
I want to remove my mysql installation and re-install from scratch. Now the problem. I have 6 active databases. How can i make sure that i dont loose those. And that when i have re-installed, that they work immediatilly ?? The databases are in /var/db/mysql The smartest thing would be to do (as root user): mysqladmin -u YourUsername -p shutdown cd /var/db/mysql tar cvfz MyDatabases.tgz * mv MyDatabases.tgz /home/ That will stop your database server, and save all your data in your /home/ dir. Then, when you want to restore them, IF they're not there after a new install, just do: cd /var/db/mysql rm * tar xvfz /home/MyDatabases.tgz ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mysql
I want to remove my mysql installation and re-install from scratch. Now the problem. I have 6 active databases. How can i make sure that i dont loose those. And that when i have re-installed, that they work immediatilly ?? I'd think mysql dump and restore would be the safest way and would allow some porting between different verions of MySQL. Good point. The mysqldump command you probably want is: mysqldump -u YourUserName -p -A alldb.mysql That should dump all databases. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opera browser native FreeBSD (was Re: AbiWord)
Browser-based apps are what I do, all day. And Opera is the best, by far: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/?platform=freebsd FreeBSD native. Fast. Small. Wonderful font-rendering. Totally HTML/XML standards-compliant, etc. If you use the web all day, it's worth paying the $39 USD to these nice people up in Norway who made this great browser. (To show my support, I bought 10 FreeBSD licenses.) If I could only find a non-GNOME/non-KDE/non-Linux browser(/email) package with the quality rendering of Netscape-4.8 without the bloat... ... I'd be pretty happy. It kinda sucks to have to install an entire 100MB linux distribution and 25MB of netscape stuff just to view the web :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Trying to run Quanta, but got error in libfreetype
You didn't mention your KDE version, but I know that Quanta 3.1 (the one that's in ports now) is meant to be run on KDE 3.1 (also in ports now.) If you installed KDE from the FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom, let's say, then that's KDE 3.0. You'd have to do a /usr/ports/x11/kde ; make install clean to do a fresh KDE 3.1. I'm no expert on this, I just know that I've got Quanta running wonderfully on my FreeBSD 4.7 / KDE 3.1 combination. Just used the /usr/ports make install for both of them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
FreeBSD laptop. $799. looks good
in case anyone didn't hear from Slashdot already, Lindows the linux company is selling a nice small laptop for $799. And if it'll run Linux I'll bet it'll run FreeBSD: http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
does XFree86 installed from CD lack anything?
Does the default install of XFree86 4.2 binaries from the FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom lack any drivers? PCI video drivers, maybe? When I set up a new FreeBSD 4.7 box from CD-Rom I choose the option to install all sources + XFree binaries since I'm going to be running XFree86/KDE. Usually it's not a problem, but on a new box with no AGP slot, I've tried TWO different XFree-approved PCI video cards and BOTH give me this error: Fatal server error: XFree86 has found a valid card configuration. Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h. my scanpci -v has this: pci bus 0x cardnum 0x0b function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x002d NVidia Riva TNT2 M64 STATUS0x02b0 COMMAND 0x0007 CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x15 BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x00 BASE0 0xde00 addr 0xde00 MEM BASE1 0xdc08 addr 0xdc00 MEM PREFETCHABLE MAX_LAT 0x01 MIN_GNT 0x05 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0b my dmesg has this: pci0: NVidia Riva Ultra Vanta TNT2 graphics accelerator at 12.0 irq 10 Any suggestions? Will choosing NOT to install XFree86 at install-time then doing a cvsup and install from /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 make any difference? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
OpenSSH security hole on FreeBSD?
I install OpenSSH like this: cd /usr/ports/security/openssh-portable make -DOPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE install That puts things here: /usr/bin/ssh /usr/sbin/sshd /etc/ssh/sshd_config BUT... it seems to be IGNORING the sshd_config! TWO major security holes: #1 - It won't let me turn off passwords (PasswordAuthentication no) #2 - It only requires I type the first 8 characters of my password! (I use 16-character password.) I don't have these problems on OpenBSD. Any idea why they would be on FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: does XFree86 installed from CD lack anything?
Does the default install of XFree86 4.2 binaries from the FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom lack any drivers? PCI video drivers, maybe? When I set up a new FreeBSD 4.7 box from CD-Rom I choose the option to install all sources + XFree binaries since I'm going to be running XFree86/KDE. Usually it's not a problem, but on a new box with no AGP slot, I've tried TWO different XFree-approved PCI video cards and BOTH give me this error: Fatal server error: XFree86 has found a valid card configuration. Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h. my scanpci -v has this: pci bus 0x cardnum 0x0b function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x002d NVidia Riva TNT2 M64 STATUS0x02b0 COMMAND 0x0007 CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x15 BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x00 BASE0 0xde00 addr 0xde00 MEM BASE1 0xdc08 addr 0xdc00 MEM PREFETCHABLE MAX_LAT 0x01 MIN_GNT 0x05 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0b I believe you have to go through the non-trivial exercise of installing the Nvidia driver..I have not done this yet, due to lack of patience, but several people on the list have been there and done it, look back in the recent archives for long discussions on it... Or probably someone else will give you a pointer. Nvidia support for FreeBSD is very new. I wish that was it! But I had the same thing happen with a very standard ATI Rage 128 PCI card. Exact same errors. The new NVidia card was a last resort. Both are listed as fully supported by XFree 4.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
suggested reinstall of KDE when original was from CD-Rom
In general I know how to reinstall an updated port, but what about if I installed KDE from the original FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom install at the same time as I was installing the OS? In this case, does make deinstall work? Or is there a better way? I want to install the new KDE 3.1 from ports in its place. Any advice appreciated. (( SORRY to ask the list this! If it were a little app, I would just experiment, but man if my KDE gets hosed, that's messy...) :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
can we use KDE 3.1 on FreeBSD 4.7?
Sorry for the newbie Q: I'd love to start using KDE 3.1 as soon as possible on my FreeBSD 4.7 box. How will I know when/if it's ready to install from ports? What's the recommended method? Just 'cvsup' and see if it's there? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: freebsd curiosity
I was told by my UNIX instructor that freebsd had hardware recognition trouble. Is this true and if so has it been fixed? I find the OPPOSITE to be true! Hell if Windows isn't recognizing some ethernet card, video card, sound card, I stick it in my FreeBSD machine where it's instantly recognized, and tells me what it is, so I can go back to the Windows machine and try to make it reognize it. I'm always AMAZED at how well FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) just recognize things immediately: no special drivers-CD-or-floppy needed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Scanner for FreeBSD
what do I have to consider when buying a flat bed scanner for a FreeBSD-CURRENT box? I have to piggyback on his question: Is there any tutorial out there for how to do a USB scan - how to scan a page on a USB scanner into Gimp or something? I've got one here I want to try, but don't know how to start. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sound card question
Is a PCI sound blaster card supported? I've found that FreeBSD 4.7 so far has supported every odd sound card I've thrown its way. Even (especially!) those on-board sound things built into motherboards and laptops these days. FreeBSD supports them all (and Windows usually doesn't without the special CD-Rom from the motherboard manufacturer.) Just add device pcm to the end of the kernel conf file, build a new kernel, and I'll bet almost any sound card will work on reboot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
ssh from one box behind firewall to another
FreeBSD box A | | v HOME FIREWALL | | | internet | | | WORK FIREWALL | | V FreeBSD box B Can you copy files from box A to box B? Box A can SSH into Work Firewall. Work Firewall can SSH into Box B. Box B can SSH into Home Firewall. Home Firewall can SSH into Box A. So - I can SEE the files I want to copy. I can use vi to edit them. But don't know how to get them directly from Box A to Box B. Right now I'm using scp to copy them to the firewall, then to the internal machine. Is this a port forwarding kind of thing? Anyone done it? Didn't see anything like it in 'man scp' or a Google search. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
do we have to wait for PHP 4.3 port?
Sorry: new to FreeBSD (was an OpenBSD guy before this). I'm impressed with how fast FreeBSD puts new releases into its ports tree. Now that PHP 4.3 is out, I'm dying to use its new features, so I'm wondering if anyone knows a guesstimate on how long it should take for PHP 4.3 to be in the cvsup'd ports tree (/usr/ports/www/mod_php4) Or - can we just use the new tarball of the source, somehow with the existing Makefile + port? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
How do I patch my change into a source file in ports?
I made a change to this file: /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools/work/cdrtools-1.11/cdda2wav/cdda2wav.c and I want my change to the source file to stick when building the port. Seems if I do a make clean install it kills my change to the source file. Do I need to add my diff change to a patch file somehow? Any tutorial on how to do this? (Sorry - first time.) Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
THANKS to everyone for all the help. I got an HP LaserJet 1200 PostScript ready printer for $375 USD. Installed /usr/ports/print/apsfilter Answered some basic setup questions - and it works great! If you use apsfilter, you don't even need to do the basic /etc/printcap settings from the FreeBSD manual. It creates it for you. THIS WORKS GREAT: lpr SomeAcrobatFile.pdf Voila. Way easier than I expected. Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? or is there some spec I need to look for? I assume parallel port is still the way to go or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? Main thing I want to do is print PDF files, in batches. (Send a directory of 300 different PDF files to the printer at once.) Are there any command-line tools to do that? or do you need an X11 Adobe Acrobat app? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD...
(Hey I know it sounds like a stupid question, but I remember asking this same question on this same list many years ago.) What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? OpenBSD is best for simple things that you think many people might try to hack. Also for anything that has multiple users with shell accounts on the box. EXAMPLES: firewall, mailserver, fileserver, dns, and most webservers without massive traffic. FreeBSD holds up under stress better. Really popular/loaded webservers, database-servers. I've been using OpenBSD for a few years and love it, but had to start moving my servers to FreeBSD as they got REALLY popular (50,000 unique users a day, on a dynamic MySQL-driven site.) Still I'm glad I started with OpenBSD, and I still use it for everything else. In my opinion, OpenBSD is a better BEGINNER BSD because it's just pre-configured for most things you want to do with it, out of the box.It's a harder one to fuck up. From the sound of your question, I'd guess you're a BSD beginner, and so without even knowing what you want to do with it, I'd say go with OpenBSD, because it doesn't sound like you're about to sysadmin a massive server with huge loads/needs. If you feel like giving more details on what you're thinking of using it for, I'll be glad to help. Which flavor of BSD is the most secure straight out of the box? OpenBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD...
Are there any iso images of this? What are the minimal requirements (hardware) in your experience? Thank you. Hardware info here: http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html I have a popular mailserver running OpenBSD on a Pentium 166 with 128megs of RAM. Running mail lists, and about 50 email accounts. Holds up great. Probably the same as FreeBSD. No OFFICIAL ISO images, but you can find some around the 'net. Here are two working links: ftp://ftp.kando.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/openbsd/OpenBSD32-i386-base.iso ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/varia/OpenBSD.iso/OpenBSD32-i386-base.iso (Hey I know it sounds like a stupid question, but I remember asking this same question on this same list many years ago.) What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? OpenBSD is best for simple things that you think many people might try to hack. Also for anything that has multiple users with shell accounts on the box. EXAMPLES: firewall, mailserver, fileserver, dns, and most webservers without massive traffic. FreeBSD holds up under stress better. Really popular/loaded webservers, database-servers. I've been using OpenBSD for a few years and love it, but had to start moving my servers to FreeBSD as they got REALLY popular (50,000 unique users a day, on a dynamic MySQL-driven site.) Still I'm glad I started with OpenBSD, and I still use it for everything else. In my opinion, OpenBSD is a better BEGINNER BSD because it's just pre-configured for most things you want to do with it, out of the box.It's a harder one to fuck up. From the sound of your question, I'd guess you're a BSD beginner, and so without even knowing what you want to do with it, I'd say go with OpenBSD, because it doesn't sound like you're about to sysadmin a massive server with huge loads/needs. If you feel like giving more details on what you're thinking of using it for, I'll be glad to help. Which flavor of BSD is the most secure straight out of the box? OpenBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
And, the most important of all, check the hardware compatibility list of printers suitable for FreeBSD. Ah! That's what I was looking for! Saw no mention of it in the FreeBSD Handbook or the hardware compatibility link from freebsd.org I did find this: http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html Seems the HP Laserjet 1200 would be good for me, since it's Postscript-ready. Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? or is there some spec I need to look for? I assume parallel port is still the way to go or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? Main thing I want to do is print PDF files, in batches. (Send a directory of 300 different PDF files to the printer at once.) Are there any command-line tools to do that? or do you need an X11 Adobe Acrobat app? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? or is there some spec I need to look for? I assume parallel port is still the way to go or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? Main thing I want to do is print PDF files, in batches. (Send a directory of 300 different PDF files to the printer at once.) Are there any command-line tools to do that? or do you need an X11 Adobe Acrobat app? Any advice appreciated. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Are there Console Based MP3 Players ?
Yes! I've got a great method I can recommend for mpg123. My BSD box has no monitor, no XFree, but it has 80 gigs of MP3s and a great set of speakers hooked up to it. I ssh into it from whatever room in the house I'm in and use one of these commands. (Aliased from ~/.bashrc) # MP3 alias play='ls -l1 *.mp3 ALL.m3u mpg123 --list ALL.m3u' alias playnew='ls -tl1 *.mp3 ALL.m3u mpg123 --list ALL.m3u' alias playr='ls -l1 *.mp3 ALL.m3u mpg123 -z --list ALL.m3u' IN OTHER WORDS: cd /mp3/AcidJazz play # -- plays in alphabetical order playnew # -- plays newest-dated MP3s first playr# -- plays in random order! I have like 20 gigs of JAZZ in one folder, so it's wonderful to just type cd /mp3/jazz playr and have it play randomly all day long as I program. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MP3 Conversion Port?
For the best sound-per-size (bang-per-buck) in MP3 files you HAVE to try the --r3mix setting in LAME encoder. It's wonderful. The audiophile setting, but with a file size not much bigger than 128bitrate. Read more at: http://www.r3mix.net/ (click on 'QUALITY' link at left) Lame has it built in so the ONLY setting you need is just lame --r3mix sourcefile outfile Most portable devices work with VBR these days. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
