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FreeBSD 5.2 Review
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· Score: 2, Informative
I disagree. I'm a rank newbie: I installed FreeBSD last Friday.
It was a delight, and thoroughly kicked ass on the half-dozen Linux installations I've experimented over the years.
Right out of the box, for instance, it's configured sensibly. It autodetected all the hardware just peachy, and connected itself to the net without issue. None. No issues. At all.
I did the mini-Install. While it was doing its job, I glanced at the FreeBSD Handbook and discovered the Ports chapter. Very cool.
So after it installed I cd'd over to/usr/ports and poked about. In next to no time I got Python installed... and it installed the latest v3.3 even though the default ports list didn't include v3.3. Hit up Apache, Zope, ZWiki. No problems.
Did a quick bit of kernel tweaking, based on the Handbook. Compiled on the second try (I think a concurrently compiling application conflicted it the first time.)
The box is currently compiling KDE and Mozilla. It reaches out and fetches what it needs from FTP, resolves all its own conflicts, and a simple command will update all the ports simultaneously.
This new user is finding FreeBSD to kick thorough ass on Linux. I'm one happy camper!
I installed FreeBSD for the first time two days ago. Then I discovered it has this awesome Ports deal for installing applications and utilities and stuff.
My god! It's wonderful! I track down the port I want, type "make install clean" and the damn thing goes out and finds all the necessary bits and pieces. I end up with the latest stable release with no effort at all!
The US Adminstration does pretty much the same thing.
"The villianous Saddam Hussein is stockpiling mountains of weapons of mass destruction. He strides from his palace, his aides cowering in terror. With a stony hatred in his eyes, he points to a small town in north Idaho. 'Kill them all,' he commands. His aides jump to action.
Meanwhile, in the White House, George Bush is informed of the Evil One's plans. 'Bring it on,' the President states flatly."
Etcetera. It's the fairy tale everyone in the government loves to tell its adoring public.
Meanwhile, the frontline boys continue to die.
Because so many people love to hear the fairy tales, I'm sure to now lose karma.
Someone with some cash should take this patent and do as little rewriting as possible to make it apply to the child-naming idea. It'd have to be accepted...
Space exploration is not a revenue-generator, and there is little hope for revenue generation in the foreseeable future.
This means it must be entirely bankrolled by the government.
Which, in turn, means it must be entirely bankrolled by the public taxpayer.
Government efficiency being what it is, I hardly imagine my dollar of tax is going to pay a dollar worth of economic improvement. Most of that dollar -- like 99 cents of it -- will go to administration overhead, corporate looting, and general waste.
Which means, basically, that I'll lose a dollar, some rich corporate bastard at McDonnel Douglas will gain 99 cents, and Joe Frontline Worker might make a penny.
Thanks, George, but I'd prefer to give my dollar to Joe directly.
What it boils down to is, the advertising market has crashed, so budgets for TV series production have disappeared.
Assisted, of course, by outrageous paycheques for the "stars."
It's time for a market correction. The cast of Friends is in no way worth a million each per episode, because advertising on Friends is not worth a million dollars, because the crap that is advertised isn't worth purchasing. Coca-cola, Dodge Neon, and Levi jeans... common, everyday, overpriced crap that everyone already knows about anyway.
The amount of drugs you'd need to take to make the Matrix trilogy -- or, at least, the second and third installments -- palatable would likely kill you.
For the love of god, DON'T watch Matrix:Revolutions!
Well that was fun. I never expected a throw-away comment to generate so much attention.
Domestic housecats are orders of magnitude more destructive to birds than the turbines are. If we snuffed just a dozen cats, we'd save more birds than are killed by turbines.
Indeed, there are two significant factors in the decline of native bird populations: domestic cats and invasive non-native bird species. The turbines are insignificant in comparison.
It takes people writing their newspapers and demanding the story.
Pick up the phone and talk to the editor, then pick up a pen and write to the editor. Then get a half-dozen friends to do the same, and get them to get a half-dozen of their friends to do it, too.
...ignoring the existing half-dozen working solutions in preference for pissing millions of dollars on a homebrew solution.
Even more stupid is insisting on a maglev solution when there are equally fast and substantially less-expensive traditional solutions, aka the French and Japanese bullet trains. One of those puppies just broke the 500kmh barrier with passengers.
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Sorry, yes, Python 2.3.3. The Cabal hasn't released the Sekrit v3.3 yet.
doubleplus karma fer you!
(were that I had it to give)
I disagree. I'm a rank newbie: I installed FreeBSD last Friday.
/usr/ports and poked about. In next to no time I got Python installed... and it installed the latest v3.3 even though the default ports list didn't include v3.3. Hit up Apache, Zope, ZWiki. No problems.
It was a delight, and thoroughly kicked ass on the half-dozen Linux installations I've experimented over the years.
Right out of the box, for instance, it's configured sensibly. It autodetected all the hardware just peachy, and connected itself to the net without issue. None. No issues. At all.
I did the mini-Install. While it was doing its job, I glanced at the FreeBSD Handbook and discovered the Ports chapter. Very cool.
So after it installed I cd'd over to
Did a quick bit of kernel tweaking, based on the Handbook. Compiled on the second try (I think a concurrently compiling application conflicted it the first time.)
The box is currently compiling KDE and Mozilla. It reaches out and fetches what it needs from FTP, resolves all its own conflicts, and a simple command will update all the ports simultaneously.
This new user is finding FreeBSD to kick thorough ass on Linux. I'm one happy camper!
I LOVE PORTS!
I installed FreeBSD for the first time two days ago. Then I discovered it has this awesome Ports deal for installing applications and utilities and stuff.
My god! It's wonderful! I track down the port I want, type "make install clean" and the damn thing goes out and finds all the necessary bits and pieces. I end up with the latest stable release with no effort at all!
Hot damn.
That's it, then.
I'm patenting view pornography... ON THE INTERNET!
Even with my very modest 1/100th cent per use IP license, I'll be bloody rich!
Fersure. Quit copying Microsoft, and start copying someone who knows what they're doing -- Apple!
By gods, that IS an IPOD! Nice adbusting. Can you adbust your own ad?
OMG! The Government has been slashdotted!
Quick -- reboot! reboot!
IMO, Darl looks like some low-grade made-for-television thug. Makes me want to reach out and smack him.
The US Adminstration does pretty much the same thing.
"The villianous Saddam Hussein is stockpiling mountains of weapons of mass destruction. He strides from his palace, his aides cowering in terror. With a stony hatred in his eyes, he points to a small town in north Idaho. 'Kill them all,' he commands. His aides jump to action.
Meanwhile, in the White House, George Bush is informed of the Evil One's plans. 'Bring it on,' the President states flatly."
Etcetera. It's the fairy tale everyone in the government loves to tell its adoring public.
Meanwhile, the frontline boys continue to die.
Because so many people love to hear the fairy tales, I'm sure to now lose karma.
Someone with some cash should take this patent and do as little rewriting as possible to make it apply to the child-naming idea. It'd have to be accepted...
Space exploration is not a revenue-generator, and there is little hope for revenue generation in the foreseeable future.
This means it must be entirely bankrolled by the government.
Which, in turn, means it must be entirely bankrolled by the public taxpayer.
Government efficiency being what it is, I hardly imagine my dollar of tax is going to pay a dollar worth of economic improvement. Most of that dollar -- like 99 cents of it -- will go to administration overhead, corporate looting, and general waste.
Which means, basically, that I'll lose a dollar, some rich corporate bastard at McDonnel Douglas will gain 99 cents, and Joe Frontline Worker might make a penny.
Thanks, George, but I'd prefer to give my dollar to Joe directly.
Are you sure it's 150k? Mine's 1.5M.
Oh that would be swell. Because then Microsoft would pull an SCO, claiming ownership of their part of the OS/2 code.
I think that in Canada, it'd have to be preloaded with some music; that's the way to dodge the media levy.
Or is Taco being fed advertising revenue from Tom for helping him increase his readership?
I honestly thought Tom's Hardware would be bankrupt by now, overwhelmed by his incompetence.
What it boils down to is, the advertising market has crashed, so budgets for TV series production have disappeared.
Assisted, of course, by outrageous paycheques for the "stars."
It's time for a market correction. The cast of Friends is in no way worth a million each per episode, because advertising on Friends is not worth a million dollars, because the crap that is advertised isn't worth purchasing. Coca-cola, Dodge Neon, and Levi jeans... common, everyday, overpriced crap that everyone already knows about anyway.
The amount of drugs you'd need to take to make the Matrix trilogy -- or, at least, the second and third installments -- palatable would likely kill you.
For the love of god, DON'T watch Matrix:Revolutions!
Well that was fun. I never expected a throw-away comment to generate so much attention.
Domestic housecats are orders of magnitude more destructive to birds than the turbines are. If we snuffed just a dozen cats, we'd save more birds than are killed by turbines.
Indeed, there are two significant factors in the decline of native bird populations: domestic cats and invasive non-native bird species. The turbines are insignificant in comparison.
If the turbines killed three people a day... ...well, we'd probably accept that, too, just as we do for cars.
Hmmmm. Now why would we need an ultra-virulent Tuberculosis?
It takes people writing their newspapers and demanding the story.
Pick up the phone and talk to the editor, then pick up a pen and write to the editor. Then get a half-dozen friends to do the same, and get them to get a half-dozen of their friends to do it, too.
I would imagine there are less than 20 routes in the world where maglev truly makes sense.
But our governments will never common good sense stop them from spending unlimited budgets!
...ignoring the existing half-dozen working solutions in preference for pissing millions of dollars on a homebrew solution.
Even more stupid is insisting on a maglev solution when there are equally fast and substantially less-expensive traditional solutions, aka the French and Japanese bullet trains. One of those puppies just broke the 500kmh barrier with passengers.
Oh my god! Think of the cyberchildren!