Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-30 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 30 Mar 2011 at 08:10:23 PDT Michal Varga wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 16:26 +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote: http://hup.hu/node/94286 ;) 1. $ portinstall -v www/epiphany $ epiphany http://www.youtube.com/html5; $ epiphany http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBH1dcHoL6Y; Firefox4 is now in

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE generating warnings re my hard drive

2011-02-15 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 16:37:04 PST Charlie Kester wrote: I'm running 8-STABLE, i386 architecture, and yesterday I updated to the latest version with cvsup. After installing the kernel and rebooting, I see the following messages on the console: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE

8.2-PRERELEASE generating warnings re my hard drive

2011-02-13 Thread Charlie Kester
I'm running 8-STABLE, i386 architecture, and yesterday I updated to the latest version with cvsup. After installing the kernel and rebooting, I see the following messages on the console: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE requeued due to channel reset

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE generating warnings re my hard drive

2011-02-13 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 16:37:04 PST Charlie Kester wrote: Motherboard: Intel DM510 with builtin IDE controller. Oops, I shouldn't have tried to write that from memory. It's actually an Intel D510MO mobo, which uses the NM10 chipset for I/O

Re: Policy on static linking ?

2011-01-14 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 14 Jan 2011 at 06:07:37 PST Pete French wrote: I recently wanted to use libdespatch, but I found that the port didn't install the static libraries. I filed a PR, and found out from the reponse that this was deliberate, and that a number of other ports were deliberately excluding static

Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

2010-02-15 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 14:11:47 PST Steven Friedrich wrote: I suspect this means we won't get KDE 4.4 for quite some time... I don't think that it was ever in the plan to get it in before the freeze. Here's what Martin Wilke said in the call for testing: Before you ask we don't want to put

Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

2010-02-15 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 15:05:09 PST Charlie Kester wrote: On Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 14:11:47 PST Steven Friedrich wrote: I suspect this means we won't get KDE 4.4 for quite some time... I don't think that it was ever in the plan to get it in before the freeze. Here's what Martin Wilke said

Re: Open Vs Free BSD

2009-06-19 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 19 Jun 2009 at 11:23:26 PDT Michael R. Wayne wrote: OK, I'm going to take a guess here that English may not be Michal's primary language and re-ask his question: Given the several versions of *BSD, I have been led to understand that each excells in different ways. How do I select