LAPTOP COMPATIBILITY w FreeBSD : Toshiba Satellite A300-13I

Hello users, I am strongly considering of installing FreeBSD on my laptop as my primary O/S but before I do so I would like to ask if someone between you has already done it and if so, if all hardware parts function as they should. Thanks for your time, George

KDE Konqueror:Can i have konqueror without KDEstuff port

KDE is a huge package , and if you're trying to portupgrade to p3 550 that's a hard thing to do.3 days now! :-( I just want konqueror , is there any way [or do you know the exact port] that will save me from installing kde base , kde , kdelibs and zillions of kde stuff [which I hate] at my

Basic Port Management.Is there any?

Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be very nice and handy if some screenshots could be added

Freebsd / FireFox / Macromedia Flash : The Quest

I m currently trying to figure how I m gonna have a Flash Plugin at my Firefox. I know there are like 5 or 6 threads on the mailing list archive about this , but some different than others , and some buggy! I see know that to have the linuxflashplugin pkg's installed I'm downloading

FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ refcount is 2,

I have the same problem after a fresh 6.0 RC1 install . . . and I thought everything should work just fine..:( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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Hello , Since the actual 6.0 Release is taking too long , would you suggest me installing 6.0 RC-1 and then then 6.0 is out , can I just apply some patches , or I should Re-makeworld everything?... And another question , I'm on a PIII 550 with 256MB ram . I have 5.3 and some broken libs

Release Information : A standard question !...:/

Dear Sir, Is there any information that you can give to the freebsd fans about the 6.0 RELEASE [ releng] and its ..'release' date ? Kind Regards, Thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

attached : portupgrade errors [term output]

Dear sir , i was portupgrading -aPr , after making make fetchindex , and this is what i came upon.. Is there any way to fix desktop-utils issue?... Thank you [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 194 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done] --- Installing the new version

Portupgrading - portauditing

Hello, Your team is ALWAYS very helpful . It's the best support i've ever dealt with. Question : How do i portupgrade , just the pkgs/ports that portaudit -a sais have vulnerabilities,and not the whole thing? Thank you G.K. ___

Mounting a network drive - winxp/nfs

Dear Sir, I want to see the files of the other computer of my 2-pc lan , which runs winxp and has a nfs filesystem. I know that i must edit /etc/fstab , and use the smbfs utility as told on the FAQ . But i could not run smbfs command , and other commands like smbutil , ask a lot of

Question about PORTUPDATE

Hello, I have installed FREEBSD 5.3 some days ago , and while i was reading the handbook , i followed some instructions of it , and did the following things: installed CVSup to update my port collection , and then created a db of the ports with pkgdb -F command. scaned my ports with portaudit