Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-15 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:58:19PM -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote: (On a side note, has anyone noticed that a system running Fedora Core 4 feels slower than it did when it was running Red Hat 7.3? I blame changes in the kernel options, but haven't delved too deeply into it. Namely, it seems

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jeff Kinz, thanks for the tip on UTF-8 and grep. I'll give that a try on Tuesday. I also thought of one other problem that I've encountered with FreeBSD. With two releases, 6.0 and one of the 4.x releases, the installer didn't work right on my laptop. It actually skipped a couple of the

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: SMP and journaling file systems. BSD belives in FFS and doesn't think journaling is the way to go. Yes, but with UFS2 and soft updates one does not need a journaling filesystem. Don't ask me for the details right now, I'd have to look it up again. :) NOTE: I am NOT a

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 12, 2006, at 17:27, Martin Ekendahl wrote: Too much eye candy or something, I can't put my finger on it. I like my console! init 3 will take care of that problem for you. also rpm --erase rhgb to get rid of that stupid graphical boot screen (which doesn't work on some

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-13 Thread Tom Buskey
On 1/13/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 12, 2006, at 17:27, Martin Ekendahl wrote:Too much eye candy or something, I can't put my finger on it. I like my console! init 3will take care of that problem for you. also rpm --erase rhgbto get rid of that stupid graphical boot screen

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-12 Thread Martin Ekendahl
Ben Scott wrote: On 1/10/06, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hang out on this list (and not any from BLU) and I'm a big FreeBSD fan ... If enough people are interested in starting something, I might be able to find the time to help out. I really shouldn't promise anything, though.

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-11 Thread Ted Roche
On Jan 10, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Ben Scott wrote: I speak only for myself, but I for one would be very interested in hearing a Why I like (Free|Open|Net|*)BSD presentation from fan(s) of same. Hear, hear! I'd like to learn more. Not for debate purposes (zealots need not attend),.. Hey, we

BSD User's group?

2006-01-10 Thread Martin Ekendahl
Does anyone know of any BSD user groups in NH or the greater Boston area? I've been a long time user, but always get drawn back to BSD bases systems for some reason. -Martin ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/10/06, Martin Ekendahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any BSD user groups in NH or the greater Boston area? I've been a long time user, but always get drawn back to BSD bases systems for some reason. Well, there's GNHLUG. Despite the name, we're really about way more

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
Martin Ekendahl wrote: Does anyone know of any BSD user groups in NH or the greater Boston area? I've been a long time user, but always get drawn back to BSD bases systems for some reason. BLU? at http://www.blu.org/ might fit. However, it seems rather Linux-centric. I hang out on this

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/10/06, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hang out on this list (and not any from BLU) and I'm a big FreeBSD fan ... If enough people are interested in starting something, I might be able to find the time to help out. I really shouldn't promise anything, though. I speak only