On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:40:19 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a
i386 without physically being present?
I'm not fully sure what you mean by reset in terms
that it happens _after_ powering down. When a machine
is powered down (i. e.
Hi,
When I did the test, I used FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using the ports collection
delivered with this distribution.
Yesterday I did a checkout of the latest ports tree. I compiled bash,
xorg, xfce and gdm using the default options. When trying to login using
gdm, it still complains about a missing
David Arendt wrote:
Hi,
well I don't actually now which package it was, but I compiled gdm (so
it should be one of it's dependencies). A compilation resulted in a non
working gdm (something with pam support not found on execution). Upon
installing gdm and is dependencies from packages,
While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of
juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather
interesting post this morning.
Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said:
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386
without physically being present?
You haven't said what about an ordinary shutdown -r isn't satisfactory,
but we have an iboot gizmo
On 7/17/11, David Arendt ad...@prnet.org wrote:
When I did the test, I used FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using the ports collection
delivered with this distribution.
I see. Since that time, there have been very few changes to the
version of the base system used to build the packages for 8, but more
to
hey
got question/problem for /boot/loader
system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC
trying to get a bitmap on screen for bootup
-
have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...)
and followed instructions
using following
Hi,
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 07:10:59 -0400
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
J Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
J
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http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0020243/Lennart-Poettering-BSD-Isnt-Relevant-Anymore
J
J Interestingly enough, a great deal of it is true. It might be
J
Hi all,
My FreeBSD8.2-amd64 installation keeps crashing - power off in a flash
with no warning. I can't imagine what might be the problem. I ran
memtest86+ and it cleared Pass 1 with no errors. Win XP runs without
any problems. I have pasted below XP Device Manager's system summary
hey
am trying to configure my new system
(FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC amd64 - on an intel core 2 duo)
and find all possible settings to tweak
i can tell from documentation that there are many options possible with
/boot/loader.conf
as well as others
though i cannot find any definitive list
i am
On 17.07.2011 13:10, Jerry wrote:
While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of
juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather
interesting post this morning.
Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
Hi
All of us know that in many cases BSD do not concede technically
Linux. However is the fact. The quantity of the companies using
FreeBSD catastrophically decreases! In what a problem? As I see one of
popularization's problems - there is no information on innovations
(DTRACE, ccTCP, VIMAGE,
Op 17-7-2011 14:17 schreef Subbsd:
community decreases. It is a pity that many developers of FreeBSD have
left in Apple, the small part works over {NET,OPEN,DRAGONFLY}.BSD but
as a whole it already absolutely small small groups of people.
And do you feel this will be the end of FreeBSD?
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of
juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather
interesting post this morning.
Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
hey
got question/problem for /boot/loader
system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC
trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup
have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...)
and followed instructions
using following
On 07/17/11 07:43 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Op 17-7-2011 14:17 schreef Subbsd:
community decreases. It is a pity that many developers of FreeBSD have
left in Apple, the small part works over {NET,OPEN,DRAGONFLY}.BSD but
as a whole it already absolutely small small groups of people.
And do
On 07/17/11 07:24 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
However, what worries me is how influential he is in some open source
projects. He suggested that Gnome should be Linux specific because
trying to keep compatibility with other UNIX systems (BSD for example)
holds them from going further in the
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, wayne mitchell wrote:
am trying to configure my new system
(FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC amd64 - on an intel core 2 duo)
I'd suggest upgrading to 8.2-RELEASE or 8-STABLE.
and find all possible settings to tweak
i can tell from documentation that there are many options
I'd feel better about the company if they used English correctly and didn't
have a bunch of HTML bombs.
On Jul 17, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said:
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386
--As of July 17, 2011 8:13:13 PM +0700, C. Bergström is alleged to have
said:
1) Why care about *BSD as a desktop?
2) Why care about *BSD as a workstation? (Which I see as a next level in
stability/usability beyond a toy desktop)
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Because it is easier to get
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Jerry wrote:
While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of
juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather
interesting post this morning.
Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
2011/7/17 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com:
On 07/17/11 07:24 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
However, what worries me is how influential he is in some open source
projects. He suggested that Gnome should be Linux specific because
trying to keep compatibility with other UNIX systems (BSD
The FreeBSD pieces work better. Does Linux have some advantages? Yes. Does
FreeBSD have some deficiencies? Yes.
There, I said it. I'm over it now.
++1 I completely agree, as a server OS FreeBSD hands down rocks
The only reason i can see netcraft making suh states is because of
On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergström wrote:
In the specific case about Gnome - really if you care so much then you
can submit patches and contribute. If nobody is willing to do the work
(scratch the itch) then ultimately it really doesn't matter.
I hope gnome does do this.. Maybe
wayne mitchell wrote:
hey
got question/problem for /boot/loader
system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC
trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup
have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...)
and followed
Sunday, July 17, 2011, 6:07:57 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
wayne mitchell wrote:
hey
got question/problem for /boot/loader
system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC
trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup
have read man page for all boot
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes:
wayne mitchell wrote:
hey
got question/problem for /boot/loader
system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC
trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup
have read man page for all boot associated
On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergström wrote:
In the specific case about Gnome - really if you care so much then you
can submit patches and contribute. If nobody is willing to do the work
(scratch the itch) then ultimately it really doesn't matter.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.comwrote:
and cloud computing instances anyway, Name one cloud provider providing
FreeBSD 8x or 9X
to run as instances. I know of one coming... question is are there
others
There are plenty already. Rootbsd for one,
On 12 July 2011 10:02, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote:
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Correct. I'm currently on 7-STABLE where it's not yet part of
the base system, but my new 8.2-STABLE also has it in /usr/bin.
I believe it has been introduced with version
On 14 July 2011 00:48, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
testing
Error reading intarnet (A)bort (R)etry (F)ail?
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.comwrote:
and cloud computing instances anyway, Name one cloud provider providing
FreeBSD 8x or 9X
to run as instances. I know of one coming...
I am working on making a general purpose image for XEN (specifically
for rack space but since it is a common framework attempting to make
it vendor neutral)
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More
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