Re:XFree86 versioning??? Was:4.0 aka release sched
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XFree86 3.3.6 released
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3.3.x == the stable release branch, and is X11R6.3 based; 3.9.x == the development branch, is X11R6.4 based; 4.0.x (or 4.x) == the forthcoming stable release branch (the first stable version of the 3.9.x branch;-) ), although I think the first 4.0 will be somewhat unstable (unless they fix a lot of bugs the next few months). 3.3.x and 3.9.x are out now, 4.x will be released somewhere this year. Regards, Edwin
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Re:Good idea, but glibc first would make more sens
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Debian FreeBSD Distro?
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One of the great advantages of FreeBSD to me is the lack of different distributions. You know your FreeBSD package of insert fancy software is going to work, because you don't have weird distro differences/incompatibilities to solve.
The idea of more FreeBSD distributions (with a different userland, different package management) sounds like a horror to me. "Sorry, our product only works with Debian/FreeBSD, not FreeBSD." Shrug.
From the/COPYRIGHT file on a FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE box:
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
I guess they retained the original copyright, at least for the 3.3-RELEASE.
Red Hat just lost a few points, and goes down a few places in my Top 10 (least un-)favourite Linux distributions. What's next? Disallowing you to offer your customers Red Hat[reg][tm][pat][whatever] based sollutions?
I only recently told a friend of mine (who owns a TI) that a handheld device without IR isn't a complete handheld. Who wants to mess with serial cables when outdoors? I know I don't. That's one of the reasons I didn't buy a Palm until the Palm III was there... Hopefully there will be a HP49GX or a HP49I (or something like that) with IR support (and expandebility).
Hemos, I disagree with you. The man has a great hobby. My only question: will it run on a VT100? It would be nice to see something else than Startrek on my terminal:-)
Funny that you mention the colour purple in your tagline. In The Netherlands the governing coalition is associated with the colour purple - red for socialists and blue for the liberals (and transparent for D66). But purple doesn't seem to rule anything anymore, because it just fell down when a member of the senate (also a member of one of the parties in the coalition) voted down a proposal. It's perhaps a bit more complicated than I wrote it down here.
If you rule purple, you rule almost nothing anymore:-)
More related to the real subject: I'll give it a try tomorrow. Does anybody know if SO5.1 runs under FreeBSD? I'd like to run it at home as well.
Well, I thought Chuck was a general BSD logo... This one seems fairly generic to me. I know, this particulary logo is used by FreeBSD. Who cares? I both run FreeBSD and NetBSD, and occasionally run OpenBSD. I don't mind. According to Marshall Kirk McKusicks page, it is the same image as used for 4.3BSD. Seems generic enough to me.
I hate to kill your dream, but I do not find UnixWare (and SCO in general) easier to administer and configure. The graphical interface might be nice for dummies, but not for Real Admins[tm]. I almost never actually see (or are in a 5 mile radius) the servers I installed for customers. And we all know how slow X over the Internet can be. Ever tried to alter the configuration by hand on an SCO?
It's big, alright. I just ran du -sk/usr/obj and it returned 175762. The result of a single make buildworld. CVSup only ran half an hour to update me from 3.1-RELEASE to 3.2-STABLE on a 33k6 connection, though. That's not too much.
...and it runs like a charm. 3.1-RELEASE was perhaps a bit too early, but this one seems to be great.
Now if I only could convince my boss to give FreeBSD a shot. He stares at his penguin all day long, and doesn't want to hear a thing about *BSD. Too bad. He should at least try FreeBSD before forming an opinion. Maybe in the future...
Well, it really is i386 optimized. For a long time, FreeBSD only ran on i386 compatible machines (it runs on Alpha as well, these days). Because of this, the system is tuned for i386 without having to be compatible with other hardware architectures. NetBSD and OpenBSD are released on a large number of platforms, so lesser effort is put in optimalisation for a specific platform.
Please, do stop FUDding us BSD people. I use both Linux and *BSD, and I can tell you, both are just fine for NFS and SMB work. With proper tuning, my FreeBSD outperforms (a tuned) Red Hat on the same hardware when it comes to SMB, but that can be caused by the fact that I am better in BSD tuning than I am in Linux tuning.
Anyway, why is it that every time there appears a *BSD related message on/., people start bashing *BSD and promoting Linux? You are only annoying people that way, doing more harm than good.
If you want to run Linux, fine. But don't flame people who don't.
The graphical people at the company I work for use (the M$-Windows application) Homesite. Don't know where to find it on the net, but I'll bet it isn't too hard to find. It has a nice userfrienly interface, even the Macintosh people prefer to use it. One drawback: it is kinda IE based.
Well, I once ftp-ed between two computers, a P66 and a P133. They both had a PCI El-Cheapo(tm) NE2000 compatible NIC, connected on a dedicated coax network. The image I transferred was about 380MB, and it was sent from a to b in about 375 seconds. That's more than one MB/s!! Go figure.
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3.9.x == the development branch, is X11R6.4 based;
4.0.x (or 4.x) == the forthcoming stable release branch (the first stable version of the 3.9.x branch
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The idea of more FreeBSD distributions (with a different userland, different package management) sounds like a horror to me. "Sorry, our product only works with Debian/FreeBSD, not FreeBSD." Shrug.
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
must display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.
I guess they retained the original copyright, at least for the 3.3-RELEASE.
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If you rule purple, you rule almost nothing anymore :-)
More related to the real subject: I'll give it a try tomorrow. Does anybody know if SO5.1 runs under FreeBSD? I'd like to run it at home as well.
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Now if I only could convince my boss to give FreeBSD a shot. He stares at his penguin all day long, and doesn't want to hear a thing about *BSD. Too bad. He should at least try FreeBSD before forming an opinion. Maybe in the future...
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Anyway, why is it that every time there appears a *BSD related message on
If you want to run Linux, fine. But don't flame people who don't.
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Well, I once ftp-ed between two computers, a P66 and a P133. They both had a PCI El-Cheapo(tm) NE2000 compatible NIC, connected on a dedicated coax network. The image I transferred was about 380MB, and it was sent from a to b in about 375 seconds. That's more than one MB/s!! Go figure.
Intosi