I am currently using FreeBSD 8.0. I have been, for a long time, been
having problems with lockups of FreeBSD 8.0 when using USB hard disks.
Sometimes certain applications lock up for several minutes, when they
use the disk, file operations are very slow, and sometimes the entire
operating
David Jackson wrote:
I am currently using FreeBSD 8.0. I have been, for a long time, been
having problems with lockups of FreeBSD 8.0 when using USB hard disks.
Sometimes certain applications lock up for several minutes, when they
use the disk, file operations are very slow, and sometimes
David Jackson wrote:
David Jackson wrote:
I am currently using FreeBSD 8.0. I have been, for a long time, been
having problems with lockups of FreeBSD 8.0 when using USB hard
disks. Sometimes certain applications lock up for several minutes,
when they use the disk, file operations are very
Aiza wrote:
David Jackson wrote:
David Jackson wrote:
David Jackson wrote:
I am currently using FreeBSD 8.0. I have been, for a long time,
been having problems with lockups of FreeBSD 8.0 when using USB
hard disks. Sometimes certain applications lock up for several
minutes, when they use
I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with
FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly
locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk.
Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lockup often for
David Jackson wrote:
I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities
with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system
randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access
the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system
I do not believe that these phones or tablets will replace desktop but there
is a lot of room for these two types of devices basically to communicate,
giving people access to their data and environment from both. The reason I
dont see the desktop going anywhere is that, basically people dont want
impossible to change the operating system on handhelds.
Thats one reason I dont like most handhelds made today. They are designed to
control you.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
On Wed, July 20, 2011 1:52 pm, David Jackson wrote:
I do not believe
I have been looking for archived versions of FreeBSD back to 2.0. Where can
these be found? I have looked on the FTP site but cannot find them there.
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Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system, someone
recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It
gets to downloaded packages. But, after 10 packages, it prints a message
Protocol error and then Package x cannot be fetched, where x is the
name of
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote:
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com writes:
Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system,
someone
recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It
gets to downloaded packages
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many
users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do
not prefer to build it all
I have had an interest in studying the FreeBSD kernel and getting to know
its internals better. After all, in Open source projects, they say,
community contributions are important.
However, My finding is that due to poor documentation, the FreeBSD kernel
is nearly impenetrable to an outsider. I
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.comwrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Dec 29 21:46:36 2011
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:43:16 -0500
From: David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD Kernel
Again, as we did discuss (and agree upon) before,
supporting FreeBSD is not in the scope of hardware
manufacturers. Supporting more than the platform
they get aliments for simply wouldn't pay. The
unit sales for _this_ world of IT are simply to
low to justify the work.
That is the chicken
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
On 12/31/2011 01:02 PM, Joe Gain wrote:
Writers who rely on ideological positions such as (socialism || fascism ||
jedi-knight == good | bad) really need to go visit a social science
mailing
list. It's not like political/
An OS should strive to be a better platform for many people, including
techies and non-techies.
A good software design philosophy is that good software works out of the
box without configuration using reasonable defaults, but, that that the
software should be flexible, very configurable, the
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Da Rock
freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
On 01/03/12 12:06, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
Ubuntu,
And that's just the way it is now. Try replicating the wealth of
information you get in various config files in FreeBSD in a GUI. Just
how hard it is to open a simple text file in an editor and just fracking
do what it tells you to in comments?! And it's not just the base
system, any
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Da Rock
freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
I've been seeing a lot of hoorays and pats on the back and a general
feeling satisfaction in being able to use clang to compile FreeBSD and
ports. The only reason I can see from searching is a need to
I upgraded to 9.0. But when i use pkg_upgrade -a, i get this:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-release/INDEX: File
unavailable. Why? Also portupgrade -PP -a also fails spectacurly. Why. It
seems like it is getting more and more difficult to use FreeBSD. To upgrade
to the
.
On 1/22/2012 12:42 PM, David Jackson wrote:
I upgraded to 9.0. But when i use pkg_upgrade -a, i get this:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/**FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-**release/INDEXftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-release/INDEX:
File
unavailable. Why? Also portupgrade -PP
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
*portupgrade -PP -a
*portmaster -PP -a
*pkg_update
All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in an unuseable
state.
Why can't FreeBSD just make the package system just
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
*portupgrade -PP
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
I wish to use binary packages and I specifically do not want to compile
anything, it tends to take far too long to compile programs and would
rather install some
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Eduardo Morras nec...@retena.com wrote:
At 11:42 31/01/2012, you wrote:
While your offer is made with the best of intentions, I doubt the
project would feel able take you up on it. The problem is simply one of
security -- while crowd-sourcing package
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote:
2012-01-31 01:13,
freebsd-lists-erik@**erikosterholm.orgfreebsd-lists-e...@erikosterholm.orgskrev:
Oh come on, guys. David is the same person who said that FreeBSD was
poorly documented.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote:
2012-01-30 18:52, David Jackson skrev:
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
*portupgrade -PP -a
*portmaster -PP -a
*pkg_update
All
I still have yet to find a resolution to the problems I have had with
binary packages and upgrades on FreeBSD. Binary upgrading is broken with
every tool I have tried.
There is no real reason why FreeBSD should not provide a facility for users
to be able to binary upgrade to the most recent
to post here shortly
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-Original Message-
From: David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com
Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were
implemented in some form long ago. For example, updated applications
are compiled and available online. You can use pkg_add -r to
install the newest binary package that is available, or you can update
your an installed application
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
David, allow me to add a few thoughts:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
As for compile options, the solution is simple, compile in all feature
options and the most commonly used settings
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:42 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.comwrote:
Especially on systems low on resources, compiling from
source is _the_ way to squeeze every required (!) bit
of performance out of code. Even if compiling may require
some time (due to optimization flags
and glaring problem got back FreeBSD engineers. It is such
an annoying problem. Why cant they just make things work for people who
want binary packages? As it is now, FreeBSD is totally unuseable to me.
Rob
On 3/7/12 11:05 AM, David Jackson wrote:
Many of your issues are non-issues, as your
This is irrelevant. FreeBSD has these options because most of its
users are system administrators, developers or other types of geeks.
Serving these needs is a major part of what FreeBSD does. That's why
we have the long standing motto: FreeBSD - The power to serve.
People who don't want
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com
wrote:
This is irrelevant. FreeBSD has these options because most of its
users are system administrators, developers or other types of geeks
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Benjamin Tovar b...@robotoloco.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:57:46PM -0500, David Jackson wrote:
So it seems like a happy compromise here. You will get what you need
and us newbies and other users who really dont want the extra
trouble of compiling
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:27 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com
wrote:
You have just now declared complete indifference to and alienated about
99%
of the potential user base and their needs, those who could care less
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were
implemented in some form long ago. For example, updated applications
are compiled and available online
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:09 AM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
here is an interesting comment (basically echoing other people's view) on
Linux developments:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120820
Reader Comments
1 o Arch and systemd (by Microlinux on 2012-08-20 10:11:39
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:20 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:09 AM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
here is an interesting comment (basically echoing other people's view) on
Linux developments:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120820
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote:
[ Michel Talon wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 12:29:56 +0200 ]
David Jackson said:
In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about
portability, this is deceptive and misleading.
You should
I am having great difficulty running a very simple assembler program on
FreeBSD on x86 in my efforts to learn some assembly programming on
FreeBSD. I have tried to compile the following with nasm, however i get
nothing in response when I attempt to run this program:
section .data
I am having great difficulty running a very simple assembler program on
FreeBSD on x86 in my efforts to learn some assembly programming on
FreeBSD. I have tried to compile the following with nasm, however i get
nothing in response when I attempt to run this program:
section .data
Charlie Kester wrote:
On Wed 11 Nov 2009 at 17:32:41 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
One more thing:
Notice that the system call number (or any other dword) should also be
pushed onto the stack before the int 80h.
The reason for this is given at the top of the page:
although the kernel is
I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the
USB hard drive simultaneously, these programs, i assume when they
attempt to write to the hard drive lock up due to what i suspect must be
some issue with the USB driver and perhaps a deadlock involving multiple
I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the
USB hard drive simultaneously, these programs, i assume when they
attempt to write to the hard drive lock up due to what i suspect must be
some issue with the USB driver and perhaps a deadlock involving multiple
I apologise if this was posted more than once, for some reason the
emails i sent were not reflected back to me, so i assumed they had not
gone through , i checked the archive on the web page and they were there.
For some reason some messages are not coming through on my gmail account.
David
Thank you. I took a look. I was just wondering if this was a known bug,
is it normal, etc.
Maciej Milewski wrote:
Dnia wtorek 17 listopad 2009 o 15:18:22 David Jackson napisał(a):
I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the
USB hard drive simultaneously
I never had tried to install Linux flash. I did install Windows flash
under Firefox on Wine and it worked. I found that the freebsd port for
Wine would not work but if I downloaded the source from WineHQ and
compiled it would work fine, however, i tried a more recent version of
Wine which did
I would like to upgrade a 7.1 FreeBSD system to 8.0 FreeBSD using
sysinstalls binary upgrade feature. I would mainly for now would like to
upgrade the core OS and X and so on, but I still have some 7.1 binaries
that will still be on the system. Is there binary compatability with 7.1
binaries
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