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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.