Dear All,
As I mentioned already in twitter/fb, our xorg-dev/trunk repo is currently
completely unstable because we are trying now to get xorg 7.7 RC ready. Our
wiki page will be updated soon. Testers and feedback are welcomed, but
please make sure you know what you are doing. If you like to discuss with
us directly, please join us on irc efnet/#freebsd-xorg.
- Martin
The Xorg Team is pleased to announce the next round of Xorg updates.
The team created a new flag called WITH_NEW_XORG that users can include
in /etc/make.conf. This was created for the intel KMS work being done
althouthough It probably works for other chips. Unfortunately, the intel
KMS driver will only work on FreeBSD 9(RELENG|STABLE) or 10/HEAD users.
Older version of FreeBSD will not be supported. Intel users will need
to patch their source manually with Konstantin’s KMS kernel patch to get
the newer chips to work. Please carefully read UPDATING entry.
Changes:
– libdrm 2.4.31 (including KMS support)
– mesa 7.11.2
– xorg-server 1.10.6
– a lot of new Graphic Drivers.
I would like to thank:
Koop Mast
Eitan Adler
Niclas Zeising
and all helpers and testers from x11@.
Hi,
Just a review of myself since i’ve need it for my talk
I’ve started playing with Linux in 2000/1, and since then I have been switching between Linux and Windows from time to time. By the end of 2001, I switched completely to Linux because I had enough of windows blue screens problem. After some hardcore testings of other distributions like debian, slax, crux, fedora, suse and gentoo, I finally stayed with Gentoo for 1 ½ years. But after portage got more and more buggy, I started to look for a new challenge. I’ve met some BSD Guys in IRC, and after a while I setup FreeBSD in dual boot and started playing with it. I was really surprised on how fast and stable it runs, and also the community impressed me with their helpfulness. If you ask anything over the mailing list, you will always get helpful answers from the developers and users. My experience with Linux community is totally the opposite. It was common for me to get answers such as “RTFM” or “Try google”, which is not what I hoped for. I still remember today how many times I had to reinstall Linux just to fix up some mess. After a while with Linux I have the impression that Linux is going more and more towards mainstream, which is of course nice for the end users, but the fact that anyone can install Linux without knowing what happened in the background makes it even worse. Not to mention about the kernel size, which I have always seen some new stuff in, but the old codes were left unmaintained. This leads to a bigger kernel with more security holes, which leads to system instability. The kernel is now 63MB, which is so much bigger compared to FreeBSD kernel.
I believe that Linux now has a big user base where 70% of the users do not understand what is occurring in the background or if they even know what ‘terminal’ is Thank you Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora. Well alright I think I stop here because you maybe start thinking that I’m bashing Linux, which I am not
. I also have a lot of good experience with Linux
and of course I won’t forget which user base I was from
.
In November 2005, I moved completely to FreeBSD. After a while using FreeBSD, I was thinking on how to give something back to the community. I started submitting patches to the FreeBSD project, and in Jun 2006 I got my FreeBSD ports commit bit. Since then I am one of the most active member in the Project. At least, this is something that I could do in return of being able to enjoy a good and a stable system with a big choice of applications that is easy to handle using the package management system.
There are a lot of things that I love about FreeBSD, and I bet you know most of them already. FreeBSD has a clean structure that makes it so easy to understand. It is a rock solid system, very stable and easy to maintained. For applications, you have a choice between package system, if you want it fast, or the famous ports system, if you wish to compile applications yourselves with specific options. Another great thing about ports system is its easy framework, which provides flexibility to FreeBSD users to build their own stuff.
FreeBSD’s user base is probably not as big as Linux’s, but I can safely say that FreeBSD’s community support is one of the best in the open source world. As I have mentioned previously, I have not been in a more helpful community than FreeBSD’s. If you’re in the mailing list or a community member, you’ll know what I mean
.
FreeBSD has a lot to offer to new users. The deep learning curve is probably tough for a first timer, but all is worth it. And FreeBSD has the best gift to new users, the handbook. FreeBSD handbook is one of the best documented operating system, and this is another reason why I like FreeBSD so much.
Well there another 5000 reason…
So long miwi
Hi.
Few days back I’ve met up with Mohd Fazil Azran for a small talk about *BSD at Starbucks coffee. I was interested to know why Malaysian *BSD community is so inactive, and from the discussion, I’d say that the reason is more likely caused by too much of politics in the group, financial issues, lack of interest to share knowledge and blablabla..
So now, I would like to suggest for a complete rebuild of a *BSD open group. It will be a group where everyone shares the same right, and the freedom of speech. No politics, no financial problems (go dutch all the way ), no hidden agenda. Just a group where everyone can share their knowledge freely. Hopefully with this group, we could attract more users to *BSD, as well as building back the trust for *BSD .
The kick off of this new group will be on the 3rd March, where I will give my first talk about FreeBSD - what is FreeBSD, why FreeBSD, FreeBSD ports and who use FreeBSD. My talk will be around 30 to 45 minutes, and afterwards I will be free for questions and discussion, and of course, coffee .
Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012
Time: 2 PM till 5 PM
Location: Old Town White Coffee, Bangsar South (KL)
You should be aware that this would be my first experience, so don’t expect for any professional talk. Everyone is welcome
So long.
PS: Help me to share & rt it & and follow me on twitter
The Xorg Team is pleased to announce the next round of Xorg updates. First of all, note that this is experimental, so you really have to know what you’re
doing read careful and follow exactly our documentation. We are specifically looking for feedback from Intel, ATI and NVIDIA users, we like to know if we break here
anything. The WITHOUT_NOUVEAU switch is gone along with xf86-video-nouveau, we suggest to switch to the nvidia blob.
KMS Support [1]:
Unfortunately, the intel KMS driver will only work for the latest FreeBSD 9-STABLE or 10-CURRENT users. The patch for HEAD current is named all.13.1.patch.
The higher the version the newer the patch is. Other needed patches are already available in the Xorg update.
HEAD Users:
Get the latest patchset from Kib here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/drm/
9-STABLE Users:
Meowthink maintanice currently the backport to 9 STABLE, make sure you have the latest FreeBSD 9-STABLE src check out. Get the patch from here:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BxbPi2OX4_B-NWY3NWU3MzEtNDBjYy00NTljLThlZGItMWFlYjIyYjI4Yjk3&hl=en_US
Rebuild your Kernel and reboot.
Know issuse:
There will be a patch reject in the sys/dev/drm/i915_suspend.c file. The solution is to manually undo the expansion of the $FreeBSD: ….$ tag, so it only
says $FreeBSD$.
Checkout Xorg Development Repo:
You will need to install devel/subversion in order to checkout the xorg repo. Next, you will need to add WITH_NEW_XORG=yes in your /etc/make.conf if you want to try out the
new Xorg and mesa. Note that if you are not qualified for the KMS patch, you shouldn’t use WITH_NEW_XORG=yes because the old intel driver doesn’t build with the new X
server. If you are qualified, you should also set WITH_KMS=yes in /etc/make.conf.
svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/tags/xorg_7_5_2
A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real portstree can
be found here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge
The script is a modified version of the old kdemerge script. Please set the KDEDIR variable to the path of your X.org ports.
After merging, run one of the following command, depending on which tool you use to manage your installed packages.
portupgrade -af \*
portmaster -a
After installing these, you will have to rebuild all xf86-* ports. We will bump all releated ports during the commit to the portstree.
Roadmap:
Our current plan is to let the CFT running until the last weekend of February. We hope to get a lot feedback to solve as many problems as possible.
So please help us to get the best xorg update ever in!
Links:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU [1]
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg
http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2012/02/working-on-xorg-stuff/
Happy updating
- Miwi
Hiho…
Well I know I haven’t been writing for a long time but there are always reasons behind it
. Lately I have been busy with my job and personal life, but anyway I’m still alive and I have started working on FreeBSD since a while.
As stated in the subject, why I’m writing today is to talk about FreeBSD Xorg stuff. Personally I have stopped working on it for a long time. The main reason was that we are still stuck on some problems like missing KMS/GEM support, though since a while there is some progress that can be seen. Also kwm@ and eadler@ jumped into the Xorg team and did a lot of good work in the last few months.
As a result, Xorg gets 2 layers of framework. What this means, users with newer GFX hardware will get the chance to use newer Xorg server and drivers. The team has decided to create a new flag called WITH_NEW_XORG that users have to include in /etc/make.conf. This was mainly done for the intel KMS work being done. It should probably work for other chips. Unfortunately, the intel KMS driver will only work on FreeBSD 9-stable or 10-CURRENT users. Older version of FreeBSD will not be supported. Intel users will need to patch their src manually with Kib’s KMS kernel patch to get the newer chips to work. We have libGL and Mesa patches in our xorg-dev repo ready.
Here are some facts on what you will get with WITH_NEW_XORG:
libdrm 2.4.30 (including KMS support)
mesa 7.11.2
xorg-server 1.10.4
a lot of new Graphic Drivers.
After this is done and committed we going to work on Mesa 8.0 and X server 1.12. The reason we haven’t done this yet is because they are in RC stage and x server 1.11 and above break the nvidia driver. We will call for a testing soon with the full instruction on what you will have to do. So keep your eyes open..
So long…
PS: follow me on Twitter here.
FreeBSD 10.0 Ports fixes.
Yesterday I have committed a patch to fix mostly all problems under FreeBSD 10. I plan to make 10 exp-run after the 9.0 Release within 2 weeks to poke maintainers and upstream as to ensure that
for the 10.0 Release, everything is fixed and we can remove the current workaround. Appreciate all the help to get it to work.
Thx
Hi,
I finally managed to get portscout back on a stable server. I have removed all mail addresses from the old portscout to cleanup all the unused mail addresses. If you are a maintainer and would like to get a mail notification, please drop me a mail using your maintainer mail address and I’ll add to the list. The RSS feature will be back very soon as well.Thanks to Martin Matuska (mm@) for hosting portscout now.
Note that portscout.org will be rerouted as soon as possible. As for now, please use http://portscout.cc.
- Martin
Hey,
I’m looking for some fast Tinderbox build server (i386|amd64) for free,
if anyone have them please let me know …
- Martin
Hi,
First of all, note that this is very experimental, so you really have to know what
you’re doing. We managed to get drm/dri with the newer xorg-server to work,
and we have removed the support for WITHOUT_NOUVEAU.
We have just updated the xorg-dev repo:
– libdrm -> 2.4.24
– libGL to 7.10.1
– libGLU to 7.10.1
– libGLUw to 7.10.1
– libglut to 7.10.1
– xproto to 7.0.17
– libXaw to 1.0.9
– libXt to 1.1.0
– libX11 to 1.4.1
– xorg-server to 1.9.4
After installing these, you will have to rebuild the following ports:
– your graphic driver
– keybord driver
– mouse/synaptics driver
Upon rebuilt, restart them.
So to get the xorg stuff you will need to:
run
svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/branches/xorg-dev
A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real portstree can
be found here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge
The script is a modified version of the kdemerge script. Please set the KDEDIR
variable to the path of your X.org ports.
After merging, run one of the following command, depending on which tool you use
to manage your installed packages.
portupgrade -af \*
portmaster -af
Please report any problems and issues to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org.
Again, please be aware that this is very experimental, and
I personally haven’t tested any 3D things yet, but we want
to share our work and start testing to get early feedback
for improvements. We plan to update Xorg fully to 7.6 after
we get some feedback for update part 1. It will be much easier
for us to figure out what the problems are with the updates
being separated in 3 parts. Please make sure you know what
you’re doing.
Thanks to Piter (gahr@) for helping me to get it compiled with our
base gcc version.
- Martin
PS: ECFT -> Experimental Call for Testing
Oh well, it’s time to write some nice job offer, of course it’s all
for free, and you can’t earn any money out of it, but you’ll get a
big thanks, hugs and love from the community. Ask your self, how
long have you been using FreeBSD. Months? Years? Decades? And you
love using it because of whatever reason but at the same time
you’re feeling a bit guilty to use it all for free without giving
anything back? Well now you’ll have the chance to change that.
We at FreeBSD are always in need of new people who are willing
to spare some of their time and effort into FreeBSD development.
Let me share a bit of my experience. I have (re)built a lot of
teams in the past, such as gecko@, kde@, python@, and I was
involved in the creation of FreeBSD vbox@ team. I have always
managed to get assistance from a lot of people, but recently more
and more people have started to complain about the slowness,
broken commits and requested for more Call for Testing. And that
is actually a big problem. I am the kind of person who like to
call for test, but I am also the kind of person who easily gets
disapointed when I’m not getting much feedbacks. The best example
here is ATI, Xorg and Xfce update. I did a call for testing because
Xorg and Driver updates is always a big issue because there are so
many different hardware involved with various configurations. From
the call for testing, we managed to get a total of 19 mails of
positive feedback and after 2 weeks I’ve committed the update.
What happened after that was I received a lot of complains for
not conducting much testing, yadda, yadda. Well I say it ain’t
my fault for not testing much, but it is also your fault for not
helping us. It is always easy to blame instead of helping. Ask
yourself why have you not helped us in testing properly and give
us feedbacks. Complaining is fine when it is done in the right
way, with the right tone.
While I’m talking about Xorg, the FreeBSD Xorg Team is currently
a one man show effort, supported by kwm@ and fluffy@. Xorg alone
is too big to get worked on. Plus you should not think that it is
affecting the ports only, but it affects the kernel as well, which
we are having the most problems at the moment. And of course I
would like to call for help on that as well. Based on my last call
for help, it is funny to see how many people wanted to offer some
help, but after knowing the amount of work involved, I have stopped
hearing from these guys. I understand that to update Xorg is always
a crappy job but I love doing it, because it is nice to get more and
more experience in understanding how things work, and it helps to
improve my skills a lot.
Lets a talk a bit about our FreeBSD KDE Team. KDE is nice, but it
really is a fat project. It needs a lot of love, and maintenance
time. Currently it’s a 4 people project, namely makc@, fluffy@ and
avilla@. While for support Raphael Kubo da Costa is handling it
actively. The thing is, KDE involves more than just KDE packages.
It includes Qt, PY-Qt, KOffice and Cmake as well. It is a big
project too and it would be nice to find more people to contribute
in the development.
And now lets talk about gecko@. gecko@ includes all Mozilla Project,
namely Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It is currently maintained
by beat@ and decke@, and supported by flo@ and andreas. So again,
I’d like to see some fresh faces for this project as well. If you are willing
to help, do ping us via mail :p.
As for FreeBSD Gnome Team, well I can’t say much about gnome but
whenever I see the cvs commits in marcuscome tree, it seems like
most work for the upcoming gnome3 is done by kwm@, and supported
by marcus@, mezz@ and avl@. Gnome includes not only Gnome things
but it also include gtk and cairo, the one that always cause
problems in a major update. I think the team would love to have
some fresh blood in the team.
Okay, all of these need an understanding of programming and
scripting. If you think that you can’t do any of that, testing would
also help much. FreeBSD is one of the best documented open source
project, so that’s another area that could use some help too. Check
if FreeBSD.org is available in your language, or start helping to
improve the FreeBSD documents in your language. It would be very
helpful and the community will thank you for that. So if you would
like to offer some help, ping me in irc/jabber/mail
- Martin
I’d like to note that the KDE FreeBSD Team is now
receiving assistance from PCBSD again. Since I left
the KDE Team, things have gone terribly wrong. After
having a few conversations with my old team, I finally
figured out what the problems were. But the main problem
was missing a package build system, and I managed to find
a solution for that with Kris’s help. Apparently this was
a root cause to some other issues and having it solved
helped to speed up other processes.
I’d like to say thanks to Kris Moore, Josh Paetzel,
Dru Lavigne and of course the iXsystem for their
generous donation to build a test machine for KDE.
PS: This means not i jump back to the KDE Team
but I’m always willing to Help when i can.
After a lot work, i’m happy to announce that python 2.7.1 now the
default version on the FreeBSD portstree. Please read careful
ports/UPDATING.
I’d like to say many thanks to:
lwhsu@, wen@, bf@
Happy Updating.
Webtropia is a Server Provider in Germany that supports FreeBSD. I have some
new machines there with a default FreeBSD installation.
Unfortunately there are some small bugs in the installation routine, when the filesytem is created for the first time without softupdates, you can easily change it in the rescue system, but the real problem is the swap. The swap size is only 300MB. Normally it is not big deal if you use a 64 bit system, but if you were to try to use your box as a package testing box like me, then you will run into a lot of problems, like the following:
swap_pager_getswapspace(4): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(8): failed
swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
pid 95498 (httpd), uid 1003, was killed: out of swap space
I googled the error and found a nice workaround in beats@ blog. I
translated it in a short version, and hopefully the Webtropia team will try to fix that soon.
First, create a swap file and adjust the permission. The following example creates a large 1GB swap file:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swapdatei bs=1024k count=1024
# chmod 0600 /usr/swapdatei
Now the swap file to the system is provided:
# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/swapdatei -u 0
# swapon /dev/md0
If you want the swap file to persist after reboot, add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
swapfile=”/usr/swapdatei”
The system can be checked if it uses the additional swap file by using swapinfo (8):
# swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
/dev/ar0s1b 1048576 70204 978372 7%
/dev/md0 1048576 0 1048576 0%
Total 2097152 70204 2026948 3%
Thanks Beat for your awesome Blog
. I hope this will help others who run into the same problem.
Just for the record:
I have Xorg 7.5.1 committed, also the ports tree is now open. It gives a lot of updates – openldap, autotools, pear, cmake, linux-* , python cleanups, gstreamer, xorg and mysql 5.5 is now default and a lot more
Oy boys and gals,
The Xorg T(m)eam is happy to announce the next round of Xorg fun! The X-Server has
been patched to the latest 1.7.X series, drivers and fonts have been updated to the
latest versions, but unfortunately we are not able to update libGL, drm and xorg-server
to a higher version because FreeBSD doesn’t support GEM/KSE (yet), but it looks good
for now, as kib@ is working on that, so we hope the future will be better for us.
This update includes some components from Xorg 7.6 with a lot of improvements, and it
seems that the performance is much better than the old version. We are calling the
update xorg 7.5.1.
We hope you will enjoy the new stuff and give us a lot of feedback. We will start an exp-run
tonight and depending on how much feedback we get, we plan to commit this update by the
first weekend of March. A note for ATI users, the driver was updated to 6.14.0, so you
may need to add some stuff to your xorg.conf in the “Section “Device”"
Option “int10″ “on”
Option “BusType” “PCIE”
Option “RenderAccel” “on”
Option “AccelMethod” “exa”
Option “DynamicPM” “on”
Option “DRI” “on”
So to get the xorg stuff you will need to:
run
svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/branches/xorg-dev
A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real portstree can
be found here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge
The script is a modified version of the kdemerge script. Please set the KDEDIR
variable to the path of your X.org ports.
After merging, run one of the following command, depending on which tool you use
to manage your installed packages.
portupgrade -a \*
portmaster -a
Please report any problems and issues to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org.
I would like to thank:
Beat Gaetzi
Dima Panov
Koop Mast
Eitan Adler
Without these people the Xorg update would still not be ready now.
PS: Please don’t send us mails with ‘xorg update dosen’t’ work.
If you send us a report, please include the latest Xorg.conf
Xorg.log, uname -a output and pkg_info output. Thanks.
Happy Updating!
My FreeBSD Commit Bit was updated yesterday. I have been playing with
ports and docs for a long time, and now src is added to the list. I’m
going to stop talking about cleaning up freebsd-bugs gnats. Now is the
time to actually do something about it. I don’t want to see anymore happy
birthday mail to a 10 years open bug report..
Thanks to Robert Watson who will be mentoring me for a while. And for those
who asked me yesterday what I want to do in src, I do have a future plan, else
don’t call me miwi
. Hang on for a bit and you will get the answer soonish.
so longish ..
Time for a new round FreeBSD Vbox’s Team called for Testing,
A few of you have probably wondered what happened to our VirtualBox
efforts for FreeBSD. Well it took a bit longer then expected and a few
problems were found that needed to be resolved first but most of the
things are looking fine now and almost all patches have been pushed
upstream with 4.0.4 so here we are now.
We will continue to work on VirtualBox for FreeBSD and upstream is also
very helpful to us but we could need a few more hands to better keep up
with the work and especially improve and fix the Guest Additions. So if
you want to help please contact us or have a look at our Todo list.
This result wouldn’t have been possible without the continuous help of
the VirtualBox Developers and a lot of people from the FreeBSD
community! (names in alphabetical order and probably missed a few,
sorry
for that!)
- Alexander Eichner
- Anonymous
- Beat Gätzi
- Bernhard Fröhlich
- crsd
- DomiX
- Doug Barton
- Grzegorz Blach
- Hans Petter Selasky
- Julian Stacey
- Jung-uk Kim
- Jürgen Lock
- Klaus Espenlaub
- Martin Wilke
- Mattia Rossi
- Michael Butler
- Sean C. Farley
- Steve Wills
- tombsd
- Vivek Khera
- well-wisher
- Wietse Venema
- Yuri
- many more from emulation@
Please when testing this ports backup all your virtual machines first.
Also please build the port with DEBUG option enabled and send us the
logfile when any VM crashes. Without them it’s very hard to figure out
what went wrong.
Highlights with 4.0:
- USB support (by Hans Petter Selasky)
- Asynchronous I/O
- Guest additions got startscripts and a integration into the desktop
environments
- www/phpvirtualbox updated to 4.0-3
Changelog for 4.0:
- http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
Short configuration help:
- http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
Todo List:
- http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/ToDo
http://home.bluelife.at/ports/virtualbox-cft-20110218.tar.gz
Since last year pear has changed the package layout. And since several months ago,
I have seen a lot of FreeBSD maintainers removing the CATEGORY flag from their ports.
The problem with that is the packages won’t be installed at the right location anymore.
Here is a patch to fix the problem, feel free to test:
http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/pear.diff
I would be happy if anyone has a better suggestion to replace the flag CAT_IN_WRKSRC…
Howdy,
I just want to inform you that the python team plans to make some infrastructure changes.
The changes involves the following 3 steps:
[python 2.5/2.6/2.7 improvements/ py 3.2 adding]
We plan to integrate some important patches:
ports/153952 ports/148406 ports/149167 ports/152224 ports/133081
python 3.2 will be released on 12 Feb, we’ll wait for the final release
before adding it to the build. For all of these we will do an exp-run
to make sure nothing will break during the build. It takes approximately 2 weeks if all works fine.
[python24 removal]
Python 2.4 is not supported anymore since 2008, and it has a lot of security problems.
Unfortunately this will cause the removal of some zope stuff. The following ports are affected:
www/zope210
www/zope211
www/zope28
www/zope29
+ zope plugins which are dependant on one of these ports. Philip is working on an
update to some new zope versions. I hope we can cooperate with him to get things
smoothly done. For all these we will do an exp-run to make sure nothing will break during
build. It takes approximately 3 weeks if all works fine.
[python 2.7 move to default]
python 2.7 is already stable enough to be moved over as default. For this one we will do an exp-run
to make sure nothing will break during the build. If all works fine, we think we can complete it by the
first week of March.
Howdy,
2 days ago was a new ati driver released. fluffy@ and me was using for
few weeks the git version without problems, but we’d like to make
sure this dosen’t broke anything for our ati users.
Here is a patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/ati-6140.diff
Changelog: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-February/001602.html
Please test and report back, if no problems I’d like to commit it next week.
thx
PS: this release fix some problems with HD54XX chips the bug with strg+ctrl+backspace; bug is gone for me.
PSS: Thx Dima for preparing the git tarball
Hello Internet,
The FreeBSD KDE Team is happy to let you know that KDE SC 4.6.0 has been
released a few Days ago, and the Release is ready for a public test. Before
you ask, no, we do not want to put KDE 4.6.0 in the ports tree before
FreeBSD 8.2/7.4 is released.
What’s new:
KDE SC 4.6.0 provides major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE
Applications and KDE Platform. Theses releases, version 4.6, provide many
new features in each of KDE’s three product lines. The official
release notes for these releases can be found at
http://kde.org/announcements/4.6/
Now you can get KDE SC 4.6 via svn checkout:
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/PYQT/
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/PORTS
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/KDE
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/
Then try:
sh Tools/scripts/portsmerge
sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge
Happy updating!!
Starting to come back to my FreeBSD work, means in the next days and weeks gives some infos what i plan to do
Slowly i start back to my FreeBSD and also portmgr work.
I’ll start with a exp-run of Qt-4.7 and friends, the build
will start tonight and should be done in 2 days, so
if everything good we’ll get it maybe in the weekend
.
so long ..
I have been wanting to write for aeons but I just couldn’t find the time, sometimes
everything in your life changes, and I have never expected that it could happen to
me. Few months ago I wrote a post that I received a job offer in Kuala Lumpur.
I was very happy with the offer and I’m giving my best shot at it, but there were
times when things just didn’t work the way I wanted. Fortunately I am surrounded with
people who have always tried their best in supporting me and keeping everything
in place. I hope everything will be fine.
I have also found a new luck of my life. Erms.. I guess I should call her THE luck of
my life hihi. At the moment I am preparing everything so that I can stay with her
.
So far all is good and I’m very happy here. Looking forward to a bright future ahead.
Hi,
Unixfreunde ist wieder zurueck, ich hatte leider bei dem ganzen stress vergessen die Domain zu verlaengern. Konnte sie gottsei dank schnell zurueck bekommen.
Howdy,
I know long time not wrote but gives a lot reason for that, i will
post a bit later whats happend
. My Friend Beat from the Gecko
Team call for help, he ported IcedTea Java plugin to FreeBSD,
he dont have much experience in the Java world and needs your
help. Please read here his Annoucment. Happy Testing.
sadly I did’t found free time to write here anything, real job makes
me too busy, it’s huge fun even if it is not always easy. I am now
almost three months in Kuala Lumpur, and I am still impressed by the
large squares, by the peoples and the culture. I did’t found time
to go more outside, but i think/hope this will change someday.
Oh yes i found here a FreeBSD Geek, I am very impressed by this
people because I’ve never tought I will find someone here, that
has the Technical understanding, it must be added that we interested
have some commonalities. I hope I get this opportunity people even
closer to get to know
. Food and drink tastes good, I am doing
quite well so far…
PS: Pics can you find on Facebook
= Martin
Howdy Guys,
Few Weeks ago i wrote that i’ve got a job offer in Kuala Lumpur,
I got this Job now and unfortunately now I need now to reorder my
life a bit. So first step is now to step down from KDE, Gecko
and vbox teams. I am not really happy about this step but sometimes
priorities goes to new state and we have to reorder something.
I’ll spend my time more to portmgr stuff, mentoring fresh
Blood, Gnats cleanup’s and committing any good stuff. I’d like
to say many thanks for all the nice time in these teams
.
- Martin
Well more or less the first week is over now, It’s
very hot here and we european guys need to learn
here with the climate, and of course with the other
timezone
. The culture here is very nice and very
friendly, eating is ok so far, there are also MC
Donalds, Buerger King, Pizza Hut etc. we don’t miss
anything here.
Mostly you’ll find a lot of meals with chicken in
all possible variations but all what we found/got
was tasty
. My new Job is nice, i’ve learned a
lot over the week here, but unfortunately my english
is very bad to hear and spelling right but i think
thats not alone my fault the peoples here speak very
very fast and whisper that you can’t hear all right ![]()
But all my colleagues help me if i need that ![]()
(many thanks Guys!)
This was all the good thing, now the only bad news,
my Laptop is gone, the sata controller thought it
is too hot here and and didn’t want to work longer
here so now it’s broken. Tomorrow I get a new one
with hoping to get FreeBSD installed quickly and
hopefully without any big problems. My plan was to
get Xorg finish this week but i have 2 problems
in the house we don’t have internet yet and too
much stress in the office to start fixing all the
problems I really hope to get this finish over the
Weekend.
So finally here are two urls with pics i made here.
First one is from the hotel where we sleeped the
first night and the secound url is from the house
where we live now.
- Martin
Now that everything is alright I’d like you to inform you that
I’ve got the best chance of my life! I got a job offer in
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to work as a System Administrator.
The plan is to move next week on Thursday, the flight is
12 hours, a long boring time
That will be my first flight and
I’m a bit nervous
The good thing is that the time I have to work for
FreeBSD will not be affected.
I’ve created a new category Kuala Lumpur here in my
Blog. I think that if I find a bit of time I’ll post some
news with some pics.
Howdy!
We’re happy to announce that Xorg 7.5 is ready
for public testing.
The ATI and Intel drivers were patched to work with
the new server, please report any problems to us!
The drivers for Vesa, NV and NVIDIA have been tested
thoroughfully and seem to work fine.
A note to FreeBSD 6.X users: Unfortunately you’ll have
to compile gcc 4.2+ first because the X.org Team doesn’t
support gcc 3.X longer, We strongly recommend you to
update your system to 7.x or above.
Please take a look on our Wikipage. There you can find
the svn repo to checkout X.org ports.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5
A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real
portstree could be found here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge
The script is a modified version of the kdemerge script.
Please set the KDEDIR variable to the path of your X.org
ports.
After merging please try
portupgrade -af \*
portmaster -af
Please report any problems and issus to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org.
Thanks to beat@ and rnoland@ for their help.
Happy Updating!
Howdy All,
How you all know is Robert Noland our X guy but he lose most of his time
for his new job and x11 is to many for one people. Robert is dealing
most time with x stuff on the src site and we need now some people to
help him on the ports side. Beat@ and I have been started to help him,
we’ve setup a SVN [1] and small wiki page [2] with all needed infomations.
If you have intrested to help us a bit please mail me back or join
us via irc EFnet/#freebsd-xorg.
[1]
http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/branches/xorg-dev
[2]:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5
Many Thanks
- Martin
Hello Internet,
We the FreeBSD KDE Team are happy to let you know KDE SC 4.4.0 was
released few mins ago, and we’re ready for a public test. Before
you ask we don’t want to put KDE 4.4.0 in the ports tree before
FreeBSD 7.3 was released.
What is new:
KDE SC 4.4.0 provide many new features, designed to integrate
local and network social services .. and a lot more. The official
release notes for this release can be found at
http://kde.org/announcements/4.4/
Now you can get KDE SC 4.4 with a svn checkout:
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/PORTS
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/KDE
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/
now try:
sh Tools/scripts/portsmerge
sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge
Please read carefull /usr/ports/UPDATING-area51
http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/UPDATING-area51
Happy Updating!!
Firefox 3.6 was committed by beat@ latest night, we’re happy to got
all finish before the ports tree is going in the slush mode
to prepair packages for FreeBSD 7.3 Release. Please read careful
ports/UPDATING. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and
submitters, and a special big thanks to nox for his great debug
session to fix our addon’s problem.
Howdy,
The official release notes for this release can be found at
here . KDE 4.3.5 the last bugfix release in 4.3.x series.
It was not planned to have KDE 4.3.5 in our Ports Tree,
because we, the FreeBSD KDE Team spend all our energy to port
KDE 4.4 release. But we thought it would be good to have it
in out FreeBSD 7.3 release.
We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.
Sorry for the long Offline time, my server was crashed with bad disk, seems all works now fine.
Currently we (secteam@) are testing the correction patch and do
peer-review on the security advisory draft, the bug was found and fixed
on -HEAD and 7-STABLE before 7.1-RELEASE during some stress test but was
not recognized as a security vulnerability at that time. The exploit
code has to be executed locally, i.e. either by an untrusted local user,
or be exploited in conjunction with some remote vulnerability on
applications that allow the attacker to inject their own code.
We can not release further details about the problem at this time,
though, but I think we will likely to publish the advisory and
correction patch this patch Wednesday.
FreeBSD 7.2 as stable and secure base system
KDE 3.5.10 as mature and easy-to-use desktop environment
OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 as feature-rich office suite
Pre-installed Java SE 6 environment
X.Org release 7.4 with extensive graphics hardware support
Large number of enhancements and fixes
This is the last and final release of the DesktopBSD project. I find myself having less and less time to spare lately and no longer desire to keep developing and maintaining this project. However, because DesktopBSD is based entirely on FreeBSD, further support for the operating system and availability of up-to-date software for DesktopBSD 1.7 is ensured.
•Cleaner or more standard kernel interfaces
•Single /dev implementation via devfs, instead of the 3 discordant ways of handling /dev that Linux provides.
•OpenBSD Packet Filter (pf).
•Other nice security features, like jails.
•Support for NDIS drivers in the mainline kernel. On Linux, NdisWrapper is unlikely to make it into the mainline kernel.
•Possible support for ZFS in the mainline kernel. Due to license and patent issues, ZFS is unlikely to appear on Linux.
•Some people say that kFreeBSD has better performance and/or stability (especially in disk/filesystem areas).
•The FreeBSD kernel might support some hardware which Linux does not support and/or the FreeBSD kernel support might be better (fewer bugs).
Jail2 unterstützt nun unbegrenzt viele IPv4- und IPv6-Adressen pro Jail, auch wurden einige Tools überarbeitet was die Administration vereinfachen soll.
Interessant ist auch die Möglichkeit name-based Jails anzulegen, ohne eine IP zu vergeben und cross Plattform Jails (i386 Jail unter AMD64).
FreeBSD/AMD64 hat nun einen maximalen Kernelspeicher von 6GB (interessant für den Ressourcenfresser ZFS).
Frühling lässt sein blaues Band
Wieder flattern durch die Lüfte;
Süße, wohl bekannte Düfte
Streifen ahnungsvoll das Land.
Veilchen träumen schon,
Wollen balde kommen.
- Horch, von fern ein leiser Harfenton!
Frühling, ja du bist' s!
Dich hab' ich vernommen!
The DragonFly 2.2 release is here! The HAMMER filesystem is considered production-ready in this release; It was first released in July 2008.
[...]
Earlier versions of the Tomahawk Desktop was based on Linux for practical reasons. After evaluating various BSD offerings we have decided to use the FreeBSD as the foundation for Tomahawk Desktop kernel and for its key libraries. Development of the Tomahawk Desktop version 2.0 based on BSD code is now under way.
[...]
Why we switched to BSD?
GPL license requirement of Linux make it illegal for graphic card manufacturers, printer manufacturers, sound card manufacturers, and various other device manufacturers to develop and distribute closed source binary drivers. Therefore, users of earlier versions of Tomahawk Desktop were left with no reliable drivers to get vital tasks done.
"Closed Source Linux kernel modules are illegal" - read more info
"any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable" - read more info
One of the most important technological development regarding file systems is ZFS. It not possible to import ZFS to Linux because of GPL licensing issues.
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CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1133MHz (1130.45-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1
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real memory = 1073725440 (1023 MB)

FreeBSD 7.1-RC1, including ports collection
NetBSD 4.0.1, including pkgsrc
OpenBSD 4.4, including packages
DragonFly BSD 2.0.1, including pkgsrc
BSDA Exam Objectives (pdf)
BSDA Command Reference (pdf)
Psychometrics Explained (pdf)
BSDA Task Analysis Survey Report (pdf)
BSD Usage Survey Report (pdf)
BSDA Test Delivery Survey Report (pdf)
FreeBSD Handbook (pdf)
FreeBSD FAQs (pdf)
The Complete FreeBSD (pdf)
NetBSD Guide (pdf)
DragonFly BSD Guide (pdf)
pkgsrc Guide (pdf)
OpenBSD FAQ (pdf)
First draft of the wiki version of the BSDA Study Guide (pdf)
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce continued funding of the network stack virtualization project, made possible by a grant from NLNet. The virtualized network stack will significantly enhance FreeBSD's jail functionality, allowing jails to have their own complete and locally administered network stacks, including firewalls, routing, and IPsec configurations. The Foundation will be sponsoring Bjoern Zeeb, a FreeBSD network developer, to enhance the existing prototype, now being merged into FreeBSD 8.x, as well as provide code review.