Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 01:40:38 -0700
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20) Multi-staged booting. You don't need to change your MBR when you
install a new kernel (or want to roll back to a different kernel). I
think I've only been stuck high and dry w/o a bootable system twice in
four years and
Read #1, but skip the rest, it's opinion.
BSD license, right? Without disagreeing with any of the
previous points, let me step into evangelism mode here and borrow/add
my own comments. Please take replies to the evangelism list, however
(maybe post a variant of this on
8) For a firewall, ipfw blows the doors off of Linux's
iptables/ipchains/ipmasq/whatever.
If you want a stateful firewall, look at ipf (also very very
very very very nice!!!) I'm waiting for ipf to get bridging support
FreeBSD's ipfw is stafeful as well, and there are no plans
(at
Dear Andrew,
18) Ports. 'ya can't forget them.
More importantly, ports that are going to work on all free BSD's. If you
haven't been keeping track of Open Packages, those guys have put the pedal
to the metal.
Just my ramblings. I don't evangelize much, but it strikes me
as odd
7. FreeBSD is developed very rapidly. Especially if you subscribe to
mailing lists, you can see bugs fixed almost as soon as they are
mentioned. New features are added more conservatively, however. New
stuff is tried out in -CURRENT, where the heavy-duty FreeBSD hackers
make it stable,
Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will
NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation.
What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat
Linux-type thing for FreeBSD? I think this would be an
interesting project to undertake. If there isn't one,
and anyone wants to start it,
* Jason Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 05:17] wrote:
Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will
NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation.
What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat
Linux-type thing for FreeBSD? I think this would be an
interesting project to
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:54:04AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
a) use EXT2 as a backing filesystem
b) use a file in EXT2/msdosfs as a backing node for a virtual
device:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vnapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASEformat=html
and
* Mike Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 08:02] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:54:04AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
a) use EXT2 as a backing filesystem
b) use a file in EXT2/msdosfs as a backing node for a virtual
device:
It sounds like a good idea to me. From what I _think_
I understand, I can make some kind of FreeBSD boot
floppy, and mount some kind of "virtual partition"
containing FreeBSD that is simply a file on my Windows
partition how far off-base am I??? If I can do
this some way, what are some steps
* Jason Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 11:07] wrote:
It sounds like a good idea to me. From what I _think_
I understand, I can make some kind of FreeBSD boot
floppy, and mount some kind of "virtual partition"
containing FreeBSD that is simply a file on my Windows
partition how far
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:16:02AM -0700, Jason Victor wrote:
Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will
NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation.
What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat
Linux-type thing for FreeBSD? I think this would be an
interesting project
Wow, thanks alot for all your advice. I just have a
couple (read: 412) questions about switching to
FreeBSD (if I should do it.) Please keep in mind that
I am a hobbyist developer, but am looking to get
better.
1. Can I work on the GNOME project under FreeBSD? Does
anyone have Ximian GNOME
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:46:01PM -0700, Jason Victor wrote:
Wow, thanks alot for all your advice. I just have a
couple (read: 412) questions about switching to
FreeBSD (if I should do it.) Please keep in mind that
I am a hobbyist developer, but am looking to get
better.
1. Can I work on
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:16:02AM -0700, Jason Victor wrote:
Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will
NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation.
What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat
Linux-type thing for FreeBSD?
Not as far as I know (if UMSDOS of Phat is
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