On 10/25/2010 09:18 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
I have not looked at PC-BSD because I thought the BSD's were all
somewhat similar (powerful, stable, and secure). I only moved off of
Debian due to feature bloat and the 'Fedoraizing' it (debian) is
experiencing. Richard Bejtlich talks so
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:58:08 -0500, Ian Gibson ibgib...@gmail.com wrote:
What's the situation re: PC-BSD? I thought they were 'FreeBSD on the
desktop', leaving FreeBSD itself to focus on being a great server OS.
FreeBSD per definition is a multi-purpose OS. It can be used on
servers (and often
Oops;
Originally sent this to the poster and not the list. Sorry.
Original Message
Subject:Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:27:56 -0500
From: Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net
To: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
Good Day;
It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an
operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5,
KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as
Firefox3, and Thunderbird 3.1.5. The machine is an older Dell GX270 P4
2.4
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this
going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team.
I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we should
have scripts that describe every aspect of a computer, so that such scripts
can be
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this
going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team.
I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we should
have
What's the situation re: PC-BSD? I thought they were 'FreeBSD on the
desktop', leaving FreeBSD itself to focus on being a great server OS.
Isn't the whole point of PC-BSD to remove the need to do what the OP did
i.e. spend days or weeks installing and configuring FreeBSD with desktop
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net
wrote:
Good Day;
It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an
operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5,
KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as
On 10/25/10 20:11, Brandon Gooch wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyerhenry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this
going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team.
I do blame the organizational infra-structure
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
I spoke a little too soon. I was UPGRADING to KDE4 4.5.2 as I was typing the
message. 'portupgrade kde4' was @ approx. 38% when it error'd out on
something about 'kdelibs4-4.4.5' too old. Going to /usr/ports/kdelibs4 and
'make clean', 'make',
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:25, Michael D. Norwick
mnorw...@centurytel.net wrote:
4 weeks ago I backed up all my data and reformatted from Debian 'lenny' to
GPT/ZFS/8.1-RELEASE. The next two weeks did not go so well. While I tried
hard to get ZFS formatted drives to work reliably, intermittent
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