Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The spirit of replying to all questions, even if they are similar to ``How do I process images with a Photoshop-like program on FreeBSD?'', or even ``Windows lets me use FOO and do BAR. Is there something like this in FreeBSD?'', seems to be one of the *good* aspects of this list. it is bad asp

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 08:00:45AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > Jerry McAllister writes: > > > > But, we can _gently_ (it hasn't always been so gentle) teach > > newbies that the list is meant for something higher than just > > repeatedly ragging on why isn't FreeBSD more like MS or RHEL > >

Re: Centralized DB of "system" users

2008-12-13 Thread Michel Talon
Lowell Gilbert wrote: NIS, which stands for Network Information Services, was developed by Sun Microsystems to centralize administration of UNIX (originally SunOS) systems. It has now essentially become an industry standard; all major UNIX like systems (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX(R), Linux,

Upgrade from FreeBsd 6.3 to 6.4 freebsd-update

2008-12-13 Thread Renat
Hello! Can't upgrade from 6.3 to 6.4 with freebsd-update. webarchive# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.4-RELEASE install No updates are available to install. Run 'freebsd-update.sh fetch' first. webarchive# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.4-RELEASE fetch Looking

Re: What is trying to write to a write-protected memory card?

2008-12-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thunar (xfce 4.4) along with hal has no problem automounting an SD card... unless that card is write-protected. There's a delay while the system tries and thinks it fails to mount the card--twice. Eject the card and the system reboots as if it was mounted. Try a clean shutdown and the syste

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
"freebsd - the power to serve" Might one reasonably surmise that "the power to serve" implies doing a good job of running server software? Like mail servers, FTP servers, web servers, file servers, database servers, ssh servers, even - gasp - X11 servers? so what's wrong. it runs well any pro

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread perryh
> after reading all these posts, i've still come up with this > answer after looking .. > "freebsd - the power to serve" Might one reasonably surmise that "the power to serve" implies doing a good job of running server software? Like mail servers, FTP servers, web servers, file servers, database

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