Hello,
Length/content-warning: Please excuse my excessive grumbling, if that's
what it is. Lots of this is background; material for discussion is at
the bottom. I've edited it a good deal, but it's still wordy.
Psychological-bent-warning: I need a vacation, and will take one soon.
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:39, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Hello,
Length/content-warning: Please excuse my excessive grumbling, if
that's what it is. Lots of this is background; material for
discussion is at the bottom. I've edited it a good deal, but it's
still wordy.
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:39 am, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
[snippage]
If you're a desktop FBSD user:
I'm a laptop FreeBSD user. :) I did the initial install of everything
using packages, and have only updated twice since then: once to get KDE
3.5.5, the other time to get Firefox 2.0.0.1.
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Hello,
Hi,
[...]
My box does *everything* except provide workstation facilities to my
family and co-workers. Company intranet and site development server,
gateway/fw/nat/proxy, POP/IMAP and MTA, SAMBA, DNS, rsync for backups,
print services via apsfilter over lpr, and,
I'm a laptop FreeBSD user. :) I did the initial install of everything
using packages, and have only updated twice since then: once to get KDE
3.5.5, the other time to get Firefox 2.0.0.1.
May i refer you to the recent thread pkgupgrade on cubfm which is
precisely concerned with a
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
How do you keep up with ports?
You don't have to keep up with them. Do you upgrade every application you
have on your windows box every other thing?
If you decide to keep current on ports do it frequently rather then
waiting for months. Do not
Hello Kevin (and other desktop users)
:If you're a desktop FBSD user:
:
:How do you keep up with ports?
I've been using FreeBSD as my main desktop since 4.0.
While having morning coffee, reading the news, I browse the mailing
list, http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/ ,
paying attention to
