Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd
Thanks, guys, for the information. This is really helpful. Giorgos, just apologizing that I used the word level-headed. In hindsight more informative would have been more appropriate. I'm currently using PC-BSD - and the journey so far has been tremendous. Happy to be part of the BSD world ;-) On Nov 10, 2007 5:10 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:45:30PM -0600, John Smith wrote: I'd expected a more level headed reply from this FreeBSD list. How is a newbie supposed to know the differenced and how can I test this if I don't have a spare machine? My question was more out of interest. This mailing list is called FreeBSD-Questions, so why can't I asked a reasonable question and expect a reasonable reply...? Because, like the software creation, the responses on the questions list are done by volunteers. You happened to get one who seemed to need to respond, but didn't have any information to respond with. Didn't notice who had made that response. It was by someone who would really know, but was still unfortunately short on information. jerry You will probably also get some more useful responses. (Sorry, I don't know much about nano, tiny or pico BSD except that those words tend to be used to imply very small) Of course, you could try to experiment. You could try dual-booting the machine you have and put those on the other part. jerry On Nov 10, 2007 9:40 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-09 17:01, John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? What don't you experiment with them, and see? :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd
I'd expected a more level headed reply from this FreeBSD list. How is a newbie supposed to know the differenced and how can I test this if I don't have a spare machine? My question was more out of interest. This mailing list is called FreeBSD-Questions, so why can't I asked a reasonable question and expect a reasonable reply...? On Nov 10, 2007 9:40 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-09 17:01, John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? What don't you experiment with them, and see? :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd
Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? I've searched the internet but can't really find a page that clearly explains the differences and similarities. Many thanks in advance, JJGS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Determine FreeBSD version of binary
Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to determine for what version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled, purely by examining the binary? Any and all help and suggestions are greatly appreciated, Thanks, john Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary
On Nov 8, 2007 6:45 PM, Chris Haulmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using strings to examine the binary file for clues. Thanks, but... exactly what kind of 'clues' should I be looking for ? Is there anything in particular that could be helpful or give me some kind of hint ? Regards, John Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary
On Nov 8, 2007 6:59 PM, Yuri Pankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be not entirely correct, but close: ldd binary | grep libc.so Yes, that helps somewhat. At least I now know that it's FreeBSD 4.x. And before I again forget something I forgot to mention earlier on: I also have a file called 'kernel'. Could that somehow give somewhat more detailed information about exactly which 4.x kernel it is, and if so, how would I go about doing that ? Regards, John Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndis | ifconfig
On 11/15/06, probsd org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get a WPC54G (linksys) wireless PCMIA card working in 6.1. I made the kernel module using ndisgen and loaded it with kldload. kldstat confirms the module and ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko is loaded along with the WPC54G driver made from ndisgen (bcmwl5_sys.ko): However, when running ifconfig it says ndis0 interface does not exit. I followed the HOWTO at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html Michael Check this blog http://blog.wearab.net/arab/2006/11/26/howto-linksys-wpc54g-with-pc-bsd-13-based-freebsd-61/ I hope it helps you out. Good luck, -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD
Hello, What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? I would like to hear from somone who tested both on FreeBSD 6.2 B to RC1 Thank you, -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD
On 11/26/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/06, John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? The general consensus is you should not touch ULE unless you're a developer willing to fix some outstanding issues and maybe take active maintainership of it. You can try it just for the fun of it, but your problem reports will be met by a grinning we told you so. Thank you Andrew, I'm asking because I downloaded PC-BSD 1.3 Beta which is based on FreeBSD 6.1 and the default in kernel is ULE, so I wanted to make sure. Regards, -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd desktop | mozilla
On 11/25/06, probsd org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a long time proponent of FreeBSD as a server. For a long time I've really wanted a FreeBSD system as a desktop. So, I decided to install the FreeBSD 6.2 and compile xorg, gnome, mozilla, etc... to give it a whirl. For anyone reading this, who wants the same thing. DO NOT DO IT. Nothing works. java is borked, mozilla and firefox are borked, gnome is ify ugh. Just dont do it. As a server, I highly recommend it... but it isn't ready for the desktop. If you don't know how to setup it, just got for DesktopBSD, or PC-BSD 1.3 Beta. Thank you, -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/16/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. thanks Geoff I would say Toshiba ;) -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions
On 11/14/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:51:49PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to ensure full update-ness? Shouldn't really matter, the relevant changes were in the kernel. Kris When was this corrected? Is 6.2 going to be faster than 6.1? Did the guys port the libthr changes into 6.2 or not? Thank you, -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions
On 11/14/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When was this corrected? Is 6.2 going to be faster than 6.1? As I said earlier, some of the most important changes that went into 6.0 were fixing performance problems in 5.x. Since then it's been a process of polishing and improving, instead of architectural changes. So 6.2 is expected to be better than 6.1 but probably not measurably faster for general workloads. Did the guys port the libthr changes into 6.2 or not? Dunno what you mean here. Kris I mean the libthr threading library, MySQL works better with it in 6.1 so I hope the last changes done by David Xu is ported to 6.2 Thank you, -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: phpmyadmin 2.9.0.3 depends on php5 5.2.0
On 11/9/06, Niek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install phpmyadmin 2.9.0.3 from ports. Although php5-5.1.6 + extensions is installed, the script tries to install php5-5.2.0. How can one avoid this? I don't see an option in the Makefile. thanks i.a. for any comment, niek Why PHP 5.1.6 is removed in the first place? -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: phpmyadmin 2.9.0.3 depends on php5 5.2.0
On 11/9/06, Daniel Gerzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Gerard, Thursday, November 9, 2006, 7:45:53 PM, you wrote: On Thursday November 09, 2006 at 12:12:42 (PM) John Smith wrote: Why PHP 5.1.6 is removed in the first place? See the PHP 5.2.0 announcement: The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.2.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features, bug fixes and security enhancements. Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement 5.2.0, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog PHP 5. All users of PHP, especially those using earlier PHP 5 releases are advised to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. This release ^ also obsoletes the 5.1 branch of PHP. ^^ Contact the maintainer. I assume they would know. -- Best regards, Danielmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I mean shouldn't they keep 5.1.x for sometime and make new port for 5.2.x beside 5.1.x? maybe some php scripts wont work on PHP 5.2.x and they need some time to tweak it? Thanks, -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:58:14 -0800 andi payn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Supra-Debians --- There are a number of Debian-based distros that will install a complete system ready to go as a workstation, server, etc., but that can be administered from there just like any other Debian system. For example (this is a while back, so it may be out of date), I used Libranet in teaching linux, because it installs a complete KDE workstation out-of-the-box, but whenever you want (or need) to play with something, it's just like a stock Debian box. But don't use Xandros--although it's Debian-based, it's heavily modified in peculiar ways. And there's Knoppix. David, you said you don't have a lot of time. You can tinker with Knoppix a bit without installing anything or you can do a quick HD install to check things out more; it takes maybe 30 minutes, as I recall, but less than an hour, at any rate. Also, there's a live cd for Slackware, but I don't think you can do a HD install with it. Gentoo -- And, while it's nice to be able to build everything from source, it's sometimes nice to not have to. With RPM-based distros, you can build the SRPM when you want to, or install the binary RPM when you just want to check something out. (How fast can your box build the kernel, XFree86, KDE, Mozilla, ghostscript, etc.?) As far as Gentoo goes, I've got to agree with Andi on this one. I haven't done a test to get the numbers, but it seems like it even takes longer for programs to compile on Gentoo than on FreeBSD, or maybe it's just the knowledge that I have no other alternative that makes it seem longer. Also, if I had to install something in a pinch, I wouldn't grab the Gentoo CD. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: KDM and FreeBSD?
Check chapter 5.7.3.1 of the FreeBSD Handbook. kdm is relatively easy to setup. GDM's setup is more work or at least the method I found on the net was. Maybe there's an easier way. I actually find GDM to be more aesthetically appealing than kdm, even though I don't really like Gnome's aesthetics. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to enable auto power off
As advised, I omitted the at nexus? flags 0x20 part from the line: device apm0at nexus? flags 0x20# Advanced Power Management and that's how I got auto power off to work. I think LINT has more info. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vmware: how to get winxp on fbsd 4.8?
i want to get winxp running using vmware inside fbsd 4.8. i have read some posts that have said that win2k is the newest version that's supported, not winxp? there must be a way to install winxp in vmware from within fbsd? let me know if any of you have done this. please be specific if you know how to do this. thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
