Re: New user -
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 09:36:58PM +, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I have just switched my netbook to FreeBSD, partly as nethack-vulture > works properly on FreeBSD. I am starting to learn more and more about > the system even in the week I have been using it. I am also trying to > blog about what I am learning, e.g twm configuration is interesting, > kind of fun going back to manually hacking configuration files. > > I have been using Linux for about 20+ years, and still do on my main PC, > but that may change, depending on how things go on my netbook. > > Happy to help promote Free Software and FreeBSD as I am involved in a > local event South Devon Tech Jam in the UK. So have a few copies of the > flyer printed off for the 14th,which is when the next jam is. I am also > trying contact local groups, Mostly youth groups to see if anyone would > be interested in getting involved with development or testing. > > So far the system is rock solid, probably should get a 2gb memory board > so I have that little bit of extra RAM. > > Anyway hopefully I can ask questions but also equally answer questions. > > Thanks > > Paul Sutton Welcome aboard! :-) -- Lars ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: The FreeBSD Project is enabling Google Analytics on www.freebsd.org
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:36:17PM +0100, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: > > The FreeBSD Project is enabling Google Analytics on www.freebsd.org. > > Congratulations, by choosing probably the easiest-to-use but > most-threatening-to-users tracking system, you have successfully > managed to display amateurism on part of the web site's staff. > > > But we can do this on our own, why do we need to send data to a third > > party? > > > > - Doing this on our own means increased infrastructure, increased > > maintenance, and increased security exposure. > > > > - Google already supplies a large number of tools, there isn't a need > > to duplicate effort. > > Noone asked you to create your own tools from the ground up. > Ironically speaking, have you even googled for (open source) web > analytics software? Software that takes 10 minutes to install. > > > - Google Analytics answers questions that cannot be discerned from > > just grepping logs. For example, How long do FreeBSD users browse > > the website; which pages are most likely to bounce users or draw > > users in; what is the most common screen resolution, which Operating > > Systems visitors to the website read and which pages specifically? > > > By using Google Analytics, some of the things we can learn > > (specifically about our documentation) include: > > You meant to say: "By using some web analytics solution, some of the > things we can learn include [...]; BTW, we choose Google's solution." > > > But I don't want Google to know I exist!? > > > > It is possible to opt-out by setting the "Do Not Track" flag on your > > browser. > > Information (that can be used against me) gathered indirectly from > billions of sources is often stronger than information gathered > directly. I'd rather have it that Google could track me, but noone > else. > > > European Union data protection regulations -- smartly -- require web > sites to notify users if their data is being collected, although these > regulations are not very actively enforced yet. Not only that you do > not have such a notification, you don't even have the Privacy Policy > section linked on the main page! There are probably millions of websites that use GA. Have you already complained to the their operators about using GA? If not, please do so. pgpV7jIV2tC7z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /newbie_forums
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:30:24PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > Newbie or not, this question is appropriate to freebsd-questions. Feel > > free > > to send it there. The so-called veteran users will be glad to help. There > > are > > all types responding to -questions including other noobs. I personally > > never > > used or participated in forums. > > The forums actually have a fair bit of activity, more than many of the > mailing lists. The web format allows highlighting code and commands, > which helps make the messages clearer. > > If you haven't taken a look, please do. More people are always welcome. > > http://forums.freebsd.org I even think that there are more posts per day than mails on the FreeBSD mailing lists. pgpj9koaR0OGt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Unified BSD?
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:45:11AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Joost van de Griek wrote: > > On 12 Nov 2012, at 21:37 , Robin Björklin wrote: > > > > > Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four > > > largest BSD variants out there, take the best bits and pieces out of each > > > and create a Unified BSD? > > > > > > You'd end up creating a fifth. > > At least a sixth, IIRC. You left out MirBSD from your distribution list. > Also, you could argue that Minix, with its NetBSD compatibility, > is a seventh and MacOS-X, with its partially (Free-/Net-)BSD compatible > userland, an eighth. > MirBSD / MirOS is dead: http://www.freshbsd.org/search?project=mirbsd Last commit: 2011-08-29 23:00:00 pgplE2yH2ohT0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD monitoring
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:41:41PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Hey All, > > We've been happily using FreeBSD for a while at CopperEgg, and we got > excited about the recent stuff going on in the latest status report > (yay growable filesystems!). > > Then I got to thinking (oh no not that!) - we should do something cool > for the people that work so hard to make FreeBSD awesome. We thought > about lots of stuff, and decided we would give away our service for > FreeBSD contributors. We do server monitoring (like > rrdtool+collectd+top but without the tedious parts), so we're going to > let you use it all you want. Might come in handy this summer while > building cool GSoC stuff, or working on projects, or whatever. > > So, here's the deal: - use all you want (personal systems only) - > free! > > Only restriction is you need an @freebsd.org email address when you > sign up so we know you are legit. > > http://copperegg.com/freebsd/ > > Of course feel free to pass it around or whatever as I am not going to > double post it. > > Eric I would feel safer if your mail was signed so I can be sure that it comes from a valid FreeBSD developer, before I install a binary that needs root access to my machines. :) Lars pgpSOgtI1pNl1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The old times ...
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:08:41PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Just though that some of you "old" guys (like me) might > enjoy this one, too: > > http://abstrusegoose.com/347 Hey, AOL showed me the internet in 1998! /me hides... pgpjm9ngLFfhi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD Popularity
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brandon Falk wrote: > Hello there FreeBSD people, > > Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact > that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA > and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me. I guess I would > like to have a bit of a discussion of what could be improved to increase > the popularity of FreeBSD, as honestly I can do almost everything in > FreeBSD that I can in Linux, so why can't FreeBSD thrive as much as > Linux. Is it that it is harder to install/configure? Any opinions/ideas > on this situation? Linux was / is hyped by the media and reached a critical mass of users and developers so that it stays in everybodys head. pgpyhVuRmrFmO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LinuxBSDos.com article
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:24:44AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:06 AM 2/18/2010, Charlie Kester wrote: > > >http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/ > > > >"PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution thatâs in a position to > >compete with the best Linux desktop distributions..." > > Wish it were fully BSD-based! Alas, it uses a GPLed GUI. (Yes, I > know that this doesn't matter to everyone, but it matters a lot to > me personally. I want to be able to hack on the code without > lending support to the political agenda that accompanies the GPL; I > also do not want to open myself to appropriation of my work due to > having inspected GPLed code. No flame wars, please.) > > In any event, if I were to run a FreeBSD-based desktop system (as > opposed to servers and appliances, which is what I do with > FreeBSD), I'd want the GUI to be BSD-licensed or Apache-licensed. Fluxbox is also in PCBSD's base system. It is released under a BSD license. pgpwe43jbFkSe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommendation
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:29:14PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > I've had some great suggestions so far. I think I'll go try amarok first, and > maybe rhythmbox next. You folks are REALLY helpful, thanks!! If you don't mind using java, you can also take a look at atunes. pgp4BzdNtDSxS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: System Scripts
Quoting james : are scripts that you make to make your life easier forbidden to share? I've been sharing mine at http://fishy.ath.cx/scripts.html which are just simple scripts to solve problems... I wonder how many times people have written the same scripts because they weren't available. Anyways just an idea to create a site to share scripts, instead of having them scattered across the internet and not knowing for what you're even looking for exists. A nice page for such scripts is http://commandlinefu.com pgpGWIYndo3uc.pgp Description: PGP Digital Signature
Re: do we have support for the Beagle Board?
Quoting Chuck Robey : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am truly impressed with that new handhelp computer, the Pandora. I read somewhere (I'm trying to find where I saw this) that the Pandora is very compatible with the BeagleBoard. I was just wondering if any of the work being done for the ARM on FreeBSD has been ported to the Pandora? I don't know enough about it, *yet*, but I'm working on it. Having such a great tiny machine running FreeBSD would be incredible. FreeBSD would be my first choice, if I'm going to get a choice. What is Pandora? pgpLO0ZaZLK8l.pgp Description: PGP Digital Signature
Re: Questions on FreeBSD today
Quoting Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've been away from FreeBSD for a few years -- I briefly gave 7.0-CURRENT a spin last year, on an old laptop, but didn't stick with it. However, I'll likely be getting a new laptop soon and I'm tired of linux (and especially tired of Ubuntu, which thinks it's smarter than me.) So I'm seriously considering FreeBSD 7. On the plus side, I've done quite a lot of C programming (though not system-level) since I last used FreeBSD, so I can try some hackery if I need to. On the minus side, I don't want to spend all my time fixing ports or patching device drivers -- I'd rather have a system that just works, and lets me focus on my work. Anyway, I have a few questions: 1. My biggest peeve was the tendency to crash when pulling out USB memory sticks (especially if they were mounted, but sometimes even if they were unmounted). Kris Kennaway told me in a private mail that this has been fixed in 8-CURRENT. Is that so, and has it been MFC'd? Yes, that's fixed in CURRENT. I don't know if it is / will be merged back to STABLE. 3. How good is Wine on FreeBSD? Can I expect it to be almost as good as Wine on Linux? It is not as good as Wine on Linux, but it's pretty good already. I use it from time to time. 5. Do linux binaries that require ALSA (eg, flash plugin 9/10) work? There's a very buggy port of flash 9 which crashes you browser _but_ as you like to use wine, you can just run Windows Firefox with Flash plugin 9/10 without problems. 6. Can I run Windows Vista (likely to be preinstalled -- no choice) under Xen or qemu? Sorry, no support for Xen yet. AFAIK there is some work ongoing to get VirtualBox running on FreeBSD, but I don't know the current status. qemu runs nicely with kqemu-kmod. I don't know if you can run Vista with it. I heard that XP doesn't run too fast with it but can be usable. 7. How good is power management, in particular cpufreq and ACPI suspend-to-RAM? (I suppose the answer depends on the laptop model.) You are right here. It depends on the model. There are some problems which prevent multi-core machines to resume after suspend, so you'd need to disable all but one core. FreeBSD is a great system, but you hit some of its weak spots here. ;-) Lars pgpkeyyr3TtJV.pgp Description: Digitale PGP-Unterschrift
Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition
Quoting Martin Tournoij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sign it here: http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html The number of Adobe Flash sites are growing, and an increasing amount of sites will simply cease to function when Flash is disabled or unavailable. I would like to call to all web developers to (re)consider their use of Flash, while it does have place on the web, it is often used in the wrong way, on the wrong place, in a badly implemented manner. Why I dislike flash: o It often adds little or nothing to a website, most things can often be achieved with either CSS or Javascript (or a combination) which suffer from much less problems. o Flash is not usable, for example it often breaks the back button, "find in page" does not work, setting font size does not work, and many more. o Browser settings such as font size, enabling/disabled sound in web pages etc. do not apply to flash, leaving the page's designer, not the user, in control of the browser. o Flash is not accessible, screen readers, braille displays etc. often have serious difficulty accessing flash pages. o Progressive enhancement is difficult to achieve with flash, unlike for example CSS or Javascript, flash is binary data which interacts poorly with HTML. o Flash is not supported on all operating systems, and only on a very limited set of architectures. o Flash is slow, if you do not have a new $1000 PC but a somewhat older "office PC" flash can be a serious performance hit. o There are a number of security issues with flash, and Adobe has never seemed to quick/concerned to fix them. o Animation is annoying, I want to access information, not watch a "cool" animation. Sincerely, The Undersigned While I totally agree to the above statements, tell me the sense of an online petition. Do you know a single petition that changed _anything_? The petition is adressed "Web Designers". How should they get aware of the petition? You cannot change the internet with that. Every big commercial site has flash. It's colorful, it's loud, it attracts the people to their products. So you won't convince the webmaster of these sites to change. Flash sucks but we can't avoid it. :-( pgpGOQBh8v8aL.pgp Description: Digitale PGP-Unterschrift
Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > If you mean by disconnected the people who appear once and ask something that > can be answered by telling them to read a certain chapter in the handbook or > one of the 120 HowTos we have written and collected (I have offered to the > doc-mailing list to translate some to English, but that has been ignored), Why do you need to ask first? Do you think that it would have been rejected if you presented a translated version? pgpKwaYHdl1ze.pgp Description: PGP signature
