BSDL Desktops

2004-05-27 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I noticed that pretty all major desktop projects are under the GPL license. Are there any Desktop projects using the BSD license? What type of toolkits would they use? -D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Howto set sysinstall to use CURRENT packages

2004-05-18 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Hi: How do I set sysinstall to use current packages? In the config menu I changed 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.2.1-CURRENT and several other values but would not recognize. Complains no such distribution is available on ftp.freebsd.org. also, where is the config file for sysinstall? Where can I set its

FreeBSD 5.2.1 Freezes ...

2004-03-02 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Hi all: I recently intsalled FreeBSD 5.2 and of late 5.2.1. On both systems I am seeing system freeze when I start X. Here are the two cases: On my Dell laptop, X workes fine as long as I don't have ~/.xinitrc. But if I start gnome-session through .xinitrc, the box freezes. When I reboot,

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 Freezes ...

2004-03-02 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am testing the install on a spare machine and to date no luck. I have been waiting for a good 5.x series to move from Linux to freeBSD but guess will have to wait longer. I did some searches on the web but no one seems to know - maybe it is titled as something else. Not sure if 4.9 would have

Gtk#/Mono on FreeBSD?

2004-03-02 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Can anyone please tell me if GTK# is available on FreeBSD? Already searched the Applications database but no entries there. Have not heard of anyone working on it either. -D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Where is the config file?

2003-10-21 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
this has for ne users and users who simply want to install binaries. Thanks for the rseponses. -D PS: I am thinking of writing it in Python. Good/Bad --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:27:42AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: I would like to know where

Howto change from RELEASE to STABLE

2003-10-17 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am running 5.1-RELEASE and would like to update to 5.1-STABLE. How can I go about it? I just want to install the software and not the kernel itself. Is that possible? Also, where is the information for pkg_add kept? I mean when I say 'pkg_add -r bash2' how does it know where to go get it? Is

Howto find packages

2003-10-16 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Hi: I come form the Debian Linux world and would like to know how I can information about packages for installation. I use prots to install some, but many of them I just want to install binary files. For eample, in Debian, I can use apt-cache search mozilla and this will list all packages with

Re: Howto find packages

2003-10-16 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I guess what FreeBSD needs is a good port of the apt system Should not be difficult. It can let pkg_xxx do all the installing etc. Would be cool if one existed :) -D --- Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:01:21PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote:

Re: Howto find packages

2003-10-16 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
The prblem is that mozilla takes a heck of a long time to compile on my machine and all I want to do is browse the web. :) Oh well. :) -D --- Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:55:49AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: I guess what FreeBSD needs is a good port