Archive for the ‘aboutBSD.net’ Category
AboutBSD.net – We’re IPv6 ready!
Posted on June 3rd, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"AboutBSD.net – 20110411 Is back online, most of it
Posted on April 11th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"
Managed to moved the site to another server and brought it back. If you're still seeing the "... Check back later ..." message, it is because the DNS record have not yet been refresh. Check back in another few hours.
The RSS feeds are up though. :)
The RSS feeds are up though. :)
AboutBSD.net – 20110411 Is back online, most of it
Posted on April 11th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"
Managed to moved the site to another server and brought it back. If you're still seeing the "... Check back later ..." message, it is because the DNS record have not yet been refresh. Check back in another few hours.
The RSS feeds are up though. :)
The RSS feeds are up though. :)
AboutBSD.net – 20110406 not accessible
Posted on April 7th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"
AboutBSD.net, a BSD news planet maintain by me is currently unavailable due to some hardware issue. Please check back later.
AboutBSD.net – 20110406 not accessible
Posted on April 7th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"
AboutBSD.net, a BSD news planet maintain by me is currently unavailable due to some hardware issue. Please check back later.
FreeBSD 7.3-RC1 Available
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD-7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
Enhanced commit privileges: Benedict Reuschling (full doc/www)
Posted on February 12th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Bernhard Schmidt (src)
Posted on February 6th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Kövesdán (src, ports, doc)
Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
Gábor Kövesdán participated in Google Summer of Code 2008/2009 and for his work he has been given commit access to the source code. His first pieces of work will be bringing in the result of his summer work into the tree.
FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1 Available
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD-7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
New committer: Bruce Cran (src)
Posted on January 29th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Ulrich Spörlein (src)
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Romain Tartière (ports)
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"New committer: Alberto Villa (ports)
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"October-December, 2009 Status Report
Posted on January 17th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"
The October-December, 2009 Status Report is now available with 38 entries.
FreeBSD – Make ports not to include X11 or GUI related library
Posted on January 15th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
FreeBSD is an excellent operating system, be it on a Desktop (PC-BSD) or Server. Its stability and flexibility was never an issue, nor even software availability (21135 ports currently available to deploy).
Most of the time, ports will install the necessary dependencies to fulfill its requirement. But certain ports installs the X11 (X window system) libraries. [...]
FreeBSD – How to manage ports in FreeBSD using portmanager
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
There are various way of managing ports, using utilities. The usual “cd /usr/ports/<ports directory>; make; make install; make clean“, portmaster, portupgrade and others. Today, this post will brief on how to use portmanager to install, upgrade and delete ports.
Using portmanager to manage ports have a few advantage :
portmanager scans for what dependencies are needed and [...]
FreeBSD – How to setup ports using wget to download
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
The default download program for ports is using fetch. fetch is fine but my personal preference is wget. wget uses 1 connection to download, unlike my previous post that mentioned “Download ports simultaneously with multiple connections“.
But wget gives extra bell and whistle like date/time of the download, log to file, continue from a partially downloaded [...]
FreeBSD – Tips to prepare large ports installation
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
Ports gets it’s sources from internet. If the sources is big or there are multiple tens of sources, the tendency to fail in the mid of the ports installation increases.
Scenario 1:
Bumpy internet broadband internet connection, like mine, will disconnect halfway when downloading big files (> 10 MB)
Scenario 2:
Large ports that depends on tens if not [...]
FreeBSD – Ports is fetching from slow servers
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Monkeying around systems, scratching my needs » FreeBSD"
Ports randomly gets it’s source server list from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, as defined by the port maintainer. But the top 1st choice of the list may not be the one physically near to us and thus the download speed is much desirable. Most of the time compiling ports doesn’t necessary takes a long time (like my 3 [...]
