Just for information: Ubuntu *would* have a problem if Debian came to an end all of a sudden. Look at the Ubuntu development cycle, for instance: Ubuntu developers take a Debian 'unstable' snapshot (which wouldn't be there if Debian was dead), freeze it, stabilize it and release it as Ubuntu. They depend heavily on a proper working Debian!
The Debian SPARC port surely has some issues. It is also not yet officially qualified for Etch.At the moment it doesn't look good. But chances are that it'll make it into the next release. If everyone only complains instead of helping to set the SPARC port back on his feed, its going to take a lot longer..;)
Wait a second! WinNT, the first partly-usable OS from Redmond was designed by the VMS developers. They were bought by MS, so you *could* say, *technically* it was designed by MS, but those developers were in fact all long-year VMS developers.
Thanks alot for the information. My problem was not only related to ext2. The ufs partitions/slices didn't dismount clean either. I think I am just gonna upgrade to 5.4-RELEASE and see if that solves my problem.
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I appriciate the hard work of the FreeBSD developers, but nevertheless I think for a -RELEASE version of FreeBSD, this is somewhat poor.
</opinion>
I recently installed 5.3-RELEASE. The *freshly* installed system didn't unmount filesystems (ext2 and ufs) when performing a shutdown or reboot. Fsck on every single startup until I worked around it: I unmount the filesystems now "by hand" in rc.shutdown.
And also, portupgrade broke my X. I could of course fix it, but it was far from a clean upgrade. Since BSD is not a real desktop system, thats not too bad of course, but still...
Couldnt have expressed it better. Now that Linux is coming up, all the tie-wearing experts suddenly know whats best for it. I'd say: Forget those ppl. If you told them 5 years ago that Linux will be discussed in "Businessweek" they would have laughed at you. Forget those ppl.
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Piece of cake!
Just for information: Ubuntu *would* have a problem if Debian came to an end all of a sudden. Look at the Ubuntu development cycle, for instance: Ubuntu developers take a Debian 'unstable' snapshot (which wouldn't be there if Debian was dead), freeze it, stabilize it and release it as Ubuntu. They depend heavily on a proper working Debian!
The Debian SPARC port surely has some issues. It is also not yet officially qualified for Etch.At the moment it doesn't look good. But chances are that it'll make it into the next release. If everyone only complains instead of helping to set the SPARC port back on his feed, its going to take a lot longer.. ;)
Must be a mistake or the statement is from another Bob Metcalfe. Where is the link? Or did Bob tell Phil817 this in a dream-vision?
Wait a second! WinNT, the first partly-usable OS from Redmond was designed by the VMS developers. They were bought by MS, so you *could* say, *technically* it was designed by MS, but those developers were in fact all long-year VMS developers.
Thanks alot for the information. My problem was not only related to ext2. The ufs partitions/slices didn't dismount clean either. I think I am just gonna upgrade to 5.4-RELEASE and see if that solves my problem.
<opinion>
I appriciate the hard work of the FreeBSD developers, but nevertheless I think for a -RELEASE version of FreeBSD, this is somewhat poor.
</opinion>
I recently installed 5.3-RELEASE. The *freshly* installed system didn't unmount filesystems (ext2 and ufs) when performing a shutdown or reboot. Fsck on every single startup until I worked around it: I unmount the filesystems now "by hand" in rc.shutdown. And also, portupgrade broke my X. I could of course fix it, but it was far from a clean upgrade. Since BSD is not a real desktop system, thats not too bad of course, but still...
Couldnt have expressed it better. Now that Linux is coming up, all the tie-wearing experts suddenly know whats best for it. I'd say: Forget those ppl. If you told them 5 years ago that Linux will be discussed in "Businessweek" they would have laughed at you. Forget those ppl.
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Hi, this has been reported from several poeple. Read Full Discosure's thread "Automated SSH login attempts" about it. Nothing to worry about i'd say.