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Announcing GNOME 2.4.0 for FreeBSD

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gooey-environments dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke says that GNOME 2.4.0 is now available for FreeBSD. Unfortunately, due to timing issues with FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, it will not make it into the official ports tree until after 4.9 is released (looks like early October right now). In the meantime, you can get to it from his CVS tree. For those without CVS access, he has periodic tarballs made, and are downloadable from the same URL. You should also download the marcusmerge script to aid in merging his ports tree with the official tree. If you already have a copy of the script, download it again because things have changed." Update: 09/18 15:25 GMT by M : FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke says due to popular demand, but more importantly to the fact that 4.9-RELEASE has been pushed back at least two weeks, GNOME 2.40 has been merged into the ports tree.

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  1. Re:FreeBSD? by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, the ones still stuck on FreeBsd.

    Still there's neat things about BSD kernel.

    1: Security levels
    2: Jail
    3: PF - OS detection leading to modification of data stream (MS system lead to Linux ISO site)
    4: Stable, high performance FS
    5: Runs most linux junk (look at sourceforge, most are abandonware). Just doesnt run stuff that depends on proc unless you enable /proc (idiot)
    6: Lot more quotas over users than you have in Linux

    Those few features keep certain users on BSD. I figure Linux might get all those features. Still, if you want a really good system, get AIX. Linux and BSD is a good standby for cutting cost as long as you can deal with the limited feature set.

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  2. pf is (d), All of the above. by TitaniumFox · · Score: 4, Informative

    PF is [Open|Net|Free]BSD. FreeBSD PF news.

    FreeBSD homepage.

    NetBSD PF news.

    NetBSD PF homepage.

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    -- I'd say your post was about 3 monkeys, 18 minutes.
    1. Re:pf is (d), All of the above. by psxndc · · Score: 4, Informative
      PF is purely an OpenBSD project that has been ported to the others. It was written because Darren Reed changed the license of ipf to something Theo (of OpenBSD) didn't agree with. FreeBSD and NetBSD kept using ipf while the OpenBSD crew wrote their own packet filter. Then the other two ported it.

      The Darren/Theo head butting resulted in this classic posting

      psxndc

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    2. Re:pf is (d), All of the above. by twistedcubic · · Score: 4, Informative


      It was written because Darren Reed changed the license of ipf to something Theo (of OpenBSD) didn't agree with.

      Actually it wasn't just Theo, it was OpenBSD that didn't agree with the license, which, in its clarification, did not allow modified versions to be distributed. I use "clarification" because Reed claimed the license didn't change, but that he only allowed peple to use the software, not revise and distribute it.

    3. Re:pf is (d), All of the above. by Ricin · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yes and that was about BETA software which Mr Reed didnt want to be going into OpenBSD -HEAD. I still find his stance very legit. It wasn't finished, it wasn't all working, yet there it was to be imported into OpenBSD. Mr Reed had a lawyer look at his license and they figured it translated to "may not be distributed" and kept/imposed that. Once again, this was BETA software. The version considered stable had /has full BSD license.

  3. Rev: pf is available for (d), All of the above. by TitaniumFox · · Score: 2, Informative

    Er. I think you're being trolled. I hadn't intended to come across as correcting whether pf is part of OpenBSD or not.

    pf is a project of OpenBSD: True.
    pf is now available to the other BSDs: True.
    This is good for *BSD: True.

    Cheers!

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  4. Re:FreeBSD 5? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes.

  5. Re:What I know about BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    1. You can not play games on it.
    There are games for BSD. But if you're serious about games, UNIX is not exactly the best platform choice for games, unless you are using Mac OS X.

    2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
    Why not? If your grandma can not use a mouse, a keyboard, or see, then that would be true.

    3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
    KDE and Gnome are available.

    4. There is no support available for it.
    There is support for it, countless websites, mailing lists, documentation, and there are commercial companies that support it. Also, at the end of the day, it's unix. A large chunk of adminstering Linux/*BSD are the same, so anyone that knows unix could offer help.

    5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
    And Linux isn't fragmented? How many Linux distros are there?? LOTS! Maybe the kernel is the same, but a kernel by itself is not an operating system.

    6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
    Free/Net/OpenBSD all run on x86 as their primary platform.

    7. You have to compile everything and know C.
    If you write software, of course you have to compile it...that is the same with any operating system. Pre-compiled packages are available for the *BSDs, as well as ports, which does the work of compiling for you. You DO not need to know C to "use" *any* operating system.

    8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
    More than enough hardware works, any half decent well known componets will work fine. There will always be a slight delay with free unix. Hardware companies don't exactly release drivers for free unix or provide documentation all the time, so it may take longer to get a driver together.

    9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
    Not sure what you mean here, it could mean a few things.

    10.It is dying.
    Visit openbsd.org, netbsd.org, freebsd.org and then apple.com. "Oops"

    You are an oxygen theif.