Re: The Best one!

2006-01-02 Thread ke.han
This is a loaded question... I can only tell you that I spent several years working on linux only to discover I like freeBSD and especially freeBSD 6 the best. Its clean, well organized, and has great support. You simply have to try it to see if its for you. ke han Mohammed Arab wrote: Hi,

Re: how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread ke.han
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:06AM +0800, ke.han wrote: I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I

how to track 6.0 increments ?

2005-12-04 Thread ke.han
I have installed 6.0 and would like to follow important changes before something labeled 6.1 comes out. What is the prescribed method for this? I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just want security fixes and other changes that might be termed 6.01 if there were such a

cvsup update and source sync confusion

2005-12-04 Thread ke.han
I am confused about how to cvsup my freeBSD 6 system. I understand the ports update stuff. Lots of good doc on this. Its updating the rest of the system that I don't understand. My current adventure beging when I read the 3ware knowledgebase article http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=

Re: Which firewall?

2005-11-17 Thread ke.han
Sasa Stupar wrote: Hi! I am about to set up a router with FBSD 5.4 for SOHO network. There will be no servers running, only inet access for the users but I'd like to make traffic limitation for users (download and upload). Which firewall of the three one explained in the handbook do you recom

receiving serial console output

2005-11-08 Thread ke.han
I need to capture output from the 3rd phase boot of freeBSD 6. I have a new server (which is the pc whose output needs capturing) and a laptop with freeBSD 6 working well. I have read the handbook section http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html The

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread ke.han
Dear arguing list... I am new to freeBSD this year and am very happy with the community (mostly) and the product. I don't at all feel a new logo (or replacing the mascot, depending on your point of view) is necessary and I was not aware, until reading this thread that it was in progress. The

Re: kqueue and polling ... are they related?

2005-10-27 Thread ke.han
None of these have any relation to polling of the network interfaces as described in the polling(4) manpage. The only connection between poll(2) and polling(4) is that they have similar names. So, to answer your question: No, you do not need to have polling enabled in order to use kqueue.

kqueue and polling ... are they related?

2005-10-27 Thread ke.han
Dear list, I will be using kqueue on freeBSD 6.0-rc1 and need to understand the relationship between kqueue and polling since polling support requires explicite enabling and choosing the correct ethernet drivers, etc... First, is there a relationship between kqueue and polling? The kqueue man

finding the correct man page ???

2005-10-27 Thread ke.han
Hello list, I am working on configuring a new system and have run across maillist comments such as: "The comment in GENERIC is not accurate, the bge driver supports 5721 based cards for a couple of month now (the manpage in RELENG_5 is correct)." The problem is, which man page? There are so m

freeBSD 6 server motherboard recommendation ??

2005-10-20 Thread ke.han
Dear List, Yes I know this is an often asked question and there is lots of info on the web. But I have been reading for 6 hours and my head is swimming and I'm still am not closer to an answer. I need to get a freeBSD 6 server in production in less than a week and don't have the skills to tw