Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-04 Thread John Levine
>> Out of curiosity has anyone ever heard of trolls patenting open source >> technologies after the fact? > >The prior art stipulations pretty much kills that off, unless they make a >genuine improvement/change to it to not qualify under that, then they would >be well within patent law to apply for

Re: Installing details

2012-08-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:51:59 +0100 (BST), James wrote: > Hi, > > I am absolutely new to FreeBSD and would like a simple 'by the hand' > explanation of how to install and use FreeBSD on a Pc. I tried to > follow the info from its website but explanations seem too cryptic > for me to understand prope

Installing details

2012-08-04 Thread James
Hi, I am absolutely new to FreeBSD and would like a simple 'by the hand' explanation of how to install and use FreeBSD on a Pc. I tried to follow the info from its website but explanations seem too cryptic for me to understand properly. I'd like to try it on a empty partition of my hard drive,

Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-04 Thread Marco Muskus
Hi Ashkan, I think that XFS & JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will gonna be the differentiator. Look at L2ARC and ZIL to improve ZFS speed. Regards,

Intel ProWireless 2200BG NIC need multicast update

2012-08-04 Thread Yuval Prag
Hi Im looking for help and some more info on the subject. the only post i found is from april 2008 the post suggests to add the capability to the driver based on or copy from a different WiFi NIC driver and it is not working still same error the NIC hangs in a way ifconfig show IP address the and

compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-04 Thread ashkab rahmani
hello i have 16tb storage. 8x2tb sata raided. i want to share it on network via nfs. which file system is better for it? thank you ——— Ashkan R ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
Hi, I've been looking at the performance of my new NAS box - built using a Jetway JNF99FL-525 with 4GB of 1066 DDR3 and a pair of 2TB Samsung F4 drives in a mirror. It all works but the performance reports are puzzling Running bonnie -s 8192 - reports character and block w

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:34:35 -0700 (PDT) > From: Daniel Rudy > Subject: Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? > > .. A big difference between copyright > and patents is that copyright is constitutional (Article 1, Section 8, > Clause 8), patents are not. FALSE TO FACT.

cannot build any pkg depending on glibmm on poudriere

2012-08-04 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
Currently, I am failing to compile the packages for my machines with poudriere due to some error with glibmm, which I am unable to trace. The problem seems to be (at least from my point of view), that a dependancy to libsigc++ is not resolved corectly. As no PR has been filed yet and the problem p