Trying to get Hardy? Here’s a good mirror for the U.S. … plus OpenBSD is easy...
We go through this every six months: Ubuntu brings out a new release, and by the time release day comes around, it’s murder to get enough bandwidth to grab the damn thing and make a new disc out of it....
View ArticleFrom FreeBSD to PC-BSD
I did an install of FreeBSD 7 on the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450) a couple of weeks ago for a number of reasons. First, I wanted to see how the new FreeBSD would run. It’s supposed to be light years...
View ArticleDru Lavigne made me do it: I killed Debian, installed an unbootable Ubuntu,...
I was listening to Dru Lavigne’s talk on BSD for Linux users (from SCALE I believe). I first met Dru at SCALE 8x – that was last year’s show; I didn’t go this year. I’ve just been working too much,...
View ArticleDru Lavigne’s ‘The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD’ is helping me update my...
The FreeBSD Handbook appeared cryptic on how exactly to update packages and ports. I’m sure the answer is in there, but I just couldn’t find it. However, I do have Dru Lavigne’s new book, “The...
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