Re: 9.2-PRE: switch off that stupid "Nakatomi Socrates"

2013-09-27 Thread grenville armitage
On 09/28/2013 08:06, David Demelier wrote: [..] Also in the future you can just forgot that crappy ideas as you can see, nobody liked it. I beg to differ. cheers, gja ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: Documenting ports options (was Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?)

2012-06-11 Thread grenville armitage
Rainer Duffner writes: [..] Personally, I don't need more frequent FreeBSD-releases but two or maybe three ports-tree freezes per year would be good. Perhaps not so much freezes per se, but if there are particular dates at which the ports tree is known to compile properly (for some

Ports from a particular date in the past... Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-06 Thread grenville armitage
On 06/07/2012 00:16, Chris Rees wrote: On 6 June 2012 14:12, Erich wrote: [..] is my English really this bad? From the handbook: '. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections.' Your English is fine, but "being told to use tag=." != "tag=. is the only tag that exi

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-04 Thread grenville armitage
On 10/05/2011 08:38, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: [..] It's nice that you want to help, but could you be less of a jerk about it to the people who devote a huge amount of time to the project? Which ones: - those who do not upgrade

Re: ata: SIGNATURE: ffffffff

2011-06-22 Thread grenville armitage
On 06/23/2011 14:05, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [..] The difference is that I really don't care if people top-post, bottom-post, or respond in-line. I work with whatever I'm presented with. +1 cheers, gja ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org maili

Re: Best first desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread grenville armitage
On 03/30/2011 06:16, Jason Hsu wrote: [..] So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro? PC-BSD. Seriously. You say you've got it already, so try it on real hardware rather than inside virtualbox. I use PC-BSD 8.1 for both my home and work desktops. Try using PC-BSD's "PB