On 11/27/2010 07:01 PM, RW wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500
Chris Brennan wrote:
My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is
weather this pulls updates from packages or ports.
There are a few applications, such as opera, that can "phone home" and
check for new
On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people
who aren't paying for ZFS or who are using it on platforms other than
Solaris from using it?
Whether you think concerns like these will prove reasonable in the long
run, they make a lot more sense t
On 11/5/10 5:19 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote:
Precisely. This is Larry Ellison's position on Open Source:
If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it.
[...] So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a
company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include i
Garry wrote:
Mac OS X is basically BSD that's been appleised (serious vendor lock-in),
they do give a little back to BSDs, but have made sure that BSDs can't get
much off of them, but they can get a lot out of BSD.
Also, Windows uses (or used to use) a BSD stack for networking for
instance.
T
On 08/09/10 22:17, Fred Boatwright wrote:
Hello,
I have installed FreeBSD-8.0 from the CD and have it running ok. I have
installed several packages including thunderbird using pkg_add -r
package_name. When I try to install firefox I get a file unavailable
error. The web site shows firefox-3.6
On 08/07/10 16:23, David Banning wrote:
I presently am using Putty and X-Win32 and I am connecting to a remote
machine successfully.
I now need to connect using SSH over the internet -through- one machine,
but have my SSH with a second machine on the same site - something like
so;
ssh-site1 --(
On 07/27/10 07:38, EforeZZ wrote:
Hi,
I was playing around with fwcontrol and its "-m" switch.
I connected my FreeBSD 7.2 notebook to Win7 PC Via firewire and
attempted to access Win7's RAM through the /dev/fwmem interface. I
failed.
The question is.. Should this always work? As far as I kno
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Renat wrote:
>> Yes. I try . But not worked!!
>>
>> -
>> webarchive# freebsd-update -r 6.4-RELEASE upgrade
>> Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
>> Fetching metadata inde
manjunath reddy wrote:
> derar sir ,
>I have downloaded freebsd code and I have made some
> modifications to it. But now feeling difficulty in sending that code to cvs.
>
>can u please give me the instructions to upload code to CVS
> archieve.
>
>I
Niyi Christ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a
> new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery
> partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever
> I insert the installation CD and i
cpghost wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote:
>> You can register and start using our new service here:
>>
>> http://forums.FreeBSD.org
>
> How about setting up a bidirectional Forum <-> Mailing List bridge?
> Perhaps to freebsd-questions@ or (not as good) to a speci
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> I *do* want to see a discussion of the FreeBSD project's goals, as part
>> of the answer the OP's question about which platform to use instead of
>> Windows. The more people understand what FreeBSD's design goals are, the
>> better they'll be able to decide if it also meet
Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:17:25 -0500, Jesse Sheidlower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 in a virtual machine in
>> VirtualBox, running on a Linux (Debian) host.
>> [...]
>> I tried to set this up on the FreeBSD side, but I am unable to
>> even create
Gary Kline wrote:
> Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on
> my
> computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the
> *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in '98,
> and the DVD just now. I'm
Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run several FreeBSD servers. Today I noticed an entry in the auth.log
> on one of them that concerns me. The entry is this:
>
> Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for
> michael from 89.123.165.3 po
> rt 55185 ssh2
>
> There is a use
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>
>>
>> But why are we interested in "converting" people? That borders on
>> religious, which an operating system should not be.
>
> exactly.
>
> it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already
> using some flavor of unix.
>
> One can be "conver
Da Rock wrote:
> I haven't checked the list for around a week- I'm still catching up! :)
>
> I'm trying to sort out a messenger server for work purposes, and
> although I've found a few I'm hoping some input from sysadmins who have
> deployed these might help our decision. I've found Gale, Jabberd
joeb wrote:
When I am in xorg/xfce and do Ctrl+Alt+Fx it does in fact open the
selected
virtual console.
But I can not find any way to return to the xorg/xfce desktop running in
the
virtual console I left from.
Alt+Fx does take me to the virtual console where x11/xfce is suppose to
be,
but
The Ghost wrote:
Hello,
I migrated to freensd-7.0-release and noticed that I can't switch to the
virtual consoles by pressing Alt+Fx once I've started X ! I guess the key
combination has changed in the nre version of Xorg implemented in FreeBSD
7.0, so I took a look at the online handbook, b
(-K JohnNy wrote:
Ok I see. How do I update from 6.3 STABLE to 7.0 STABLE ? I imagine there
is a tool for that? Short of down loading the iso files and doing it from
discs.
Don't know if there is a tool for this, but the usual way is to make a
RELENG-7 supfile, csup the 7-STABLE sources and bu
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote:
Dear Support:
I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let
me
know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now?
And let me know how to subscribe the Q&A list that I prefer.
Thanks in
Colin Percival wrote:
RW wrote:
With portsnap the default server is itself one of the servers on the
SRV list, so portsnap should fall-back to a working server even when
DNS is unavailable (behind a proxy) or screwed-up by a router etc.
I dont see a reason why update.FreeBSD.org shouldn't have
andrew clarke wrote:
On Wed 2008-10-29 13:37:11 UTC-0600, Steven Susbauer
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName
update.FreeBSD.org" is not changed to "ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org"
in /etc/freebsd-update.conf.
thinkpad# fr
matt donovan wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Steven Susbauer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName
update.FreeBSD.org <http://update.FreeBSD.org>" is not changed to
"Ser
freebsd-update fetch fails if the default "ServerName
update.FreeBSD.org" is not changed to "ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org"
in /etc/freebsd-update.conf.
This happens on at least 6.3, I believe it is also the case in later
versions but am unsure (7-RELEASE and later kill my networking card due
to
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote:
Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD.
I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that:
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/
FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste 3
CDs
from installation if I have a high-speed permanent Internet
connection.
So
wouldn't just 1 DVD-RW do?
Basically, you are wrong, because you haven't looked far enough in to
things to know that
Mauricio López wrote:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote:
I have seen a "How to" about this but I have a problem, i set the
console
to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the "how to" i get a
m
Steven Susbauer wrote:
I have read a few places of people having issues with the Xircom cardbus
networking adapter with -CURRENT and, I guess, with release 7. My card
is an IBM EtherFast 10/100.
This card works fine in 6.3. In 7 I get "dc0: No station address in
CIS!" - same dr
Da Rock wrote:
Been having trouble posting with a new mail server (only to your server
mind)- just trying sort it out.
Cheers
Please consider sending these to the freebsd-test mailing list, as it is
made for test posts.
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Nejc Skoberne wrote:
Hello,
is there any list of FreeBSD reference installations? Like a list of big
companies
that use FreeBSD as their core servers?
Thanks,
Nejc
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You may have some luck looking around and/or contacting the FreeBSD
Advocacy Pr
I have read a few places of people having issues with the Xircom cardbus
networking adapter with -CURRENT and, I guess, with release 7. My card
is an IBM EtherFast 10/100.
This card works fine in 6.3. In 7 I get "dc0: No station address in
CIS!" - same driver
This problem appears to be mentioned
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