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How fast is your cpu? Also depnds on what needed to be updated.

I agree, I should do a review, but I forget what some new to it might need sometimes so it makes it hard :) shadowfox has been running bsd for a couple years now, i think, so............ I just didn't find it that interesting tell 6.0

Looks like you did some kind of mkdir to a sentence or something, no idea what those are. If you do an ls -l and there are no links or any files in them, just blow them out. Or if your supper paranoid, tar cvf stuff.tar <dir1> <dir2> blah blah && rm -fr di1 dir1 blah blah http://www.bsdnexus.com/wallpapers.htm <--some *bsd wallpapers, i got some cool ones some were else to but can't find it atm.

Wallpaper doesn't really fit with your OS :P Whats in your home?

Thats what i do, just install default and then use ports the rest of the way.

Most of the linux distros can be called stable as long as you don't run a crazy version like rawhide or cooker on your server you should be fine ;) That said, If it was a server at work, your not getting support for by the looks of it (gentoo vs. slackware) I personally would go with centos.org, freebsd or solaris 10, but that is just me 8) ;) [justin@tank ~]$ uptime 15:10:15 up 103 days, 21:27, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 [justin@tank ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.2 (Final) This doesn't beat pauls, but the hardware was put together 103 days ago, you do the math :deal:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...book/ports.html I use portsnap to update your tree # portsnap fetch # portsnap extract # portsnap fetch update Then I use portupgrade to upgrade them all, # portupgrade -arR http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...ndbook/x11.html Your initial xorg.conf is a guess, you can always save it if most things are working and either create a brand new one, or just edit the values in the other one, either case, make a backup if it is there ;)

I've built several kernels now, not during install though :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...rnelconfig.html this is also good http://bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/kernel/custom_kernel.php

You can choose auto and it will give you decent sizes to work with like defaults Its called autodefault http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...tall-steps.html

Install might be a more difficult than the other 2 but over all its pretty easy, handbook has everything Close to 14,000 packages so it should have most everything you want.'' https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=Att...pe=post&id=2109

You could edit the .ebuild I suppose.

Guess I can think enough to tell you how to install software, bascially 2 ways, precompiled binarys or source to find what you want to install root@pillar# cd /usr/ports/ root@pillar# make search name=nvidia Port: nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver Info: NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering Maint: danfe@FreeBSD.org B-deps: compat5x-i386-5.4.0.8 localedata-5.4 R-deps: compat5x-i386-5.4.0.8 linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_5 linux-expat-1.95.7 linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_2 linux_base-8-8.0_10 localedata-5.4 WWW: http://www.nvidia.com/ Port: nvidia-settings-1.0_6 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-settings Info: Display Control Panel for XFree86/X.org NVidia driver Maint: bland@FreeBSD.org B-deps: atk-1.10.3 bitstream-vera-1.10_2 cairo-1.0.2_1 expat-1.95.8_3 fontconfig-2.3.2,1 freetype2-2.1.10_1 gettext-0.14.5 glib-2.8.4 gmake-3.80_2 gtk-2.8.8 hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 intltool-0.34.1 jpeg-6b_3 libXft-2.1.7 libiconv-1.9.2_1 libxml2-2.6.22 p5-XML-Parser-2.34_1 pango-1.10.2 perl-5.8.7 pkgconfig-0.20 png-1.2.8_2 shared-mime-info-0.16_2 tiff-3.7.4 xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2 xorg-fonts-truetype-6.8.2 xorg-libraries-6.8.2 R-deps: atk-1.10.3 bitstream-vera-1.10_2 cairo-1.0.2_1 expat-1.95.8_3 fontconfig-2.3.2,1 freetype2-2.1.10_1 gettext-0.14.5 glib-2.8.4 gtk-2.8.8 hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 jpeg-6b_3 libXft-2.1.7 libiconv-1.9.2_1 libxml2-2.6.22 pango-1.10.2 perl-5.8.7 pkgconfig-0.20 png-1.2.8_2 shared-mime-info-0.16_2 tiff-3.7.4 xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2 xorg-fonts-truetype-6.8.2 xorg-libraries-6.8.2 WWW: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html To install from source (the way i do it) if your pc is slow, use the binarys :) # cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver # make install clean To install binary pkg_add -r nvidia-driver if you look for something that gives you more output than you ever wanted pipe the search to more # make search name=gnome | more back to work now.....

SInce some folks are playing in the bsd land thought i would through some info that will be usefull, this applies to freebsd 6.0 but some stuff would work in other bsds. First, save these 5 bookmarks: (6 now) :) Best resource you'll find for how-to's and everything you really need http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Next best things :) FreeBSD Cheatsheet http://bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/ wiki is ok, a little less info than should be there but still good: http://freebsdwiki.net forum http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21 Of course google was going to slide in here www.google.com/bsd First thing is to keep your ports tree updated, this is were you get all your goodies. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...orts-using.html I like portsnap my self which is installed on 6.x by default First time you run it # portsnap fetch # portsnap extract After the inital time you only need to fetch and update # portsnap fetch update more info here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...k/portsnap.html After you used portsnap to update your tree these will explain how to use portupgrade at pkgdb portupgrade: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28...ics.html?page=2 This explains pkgdb in good detail http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28...ics.html?page=2

Yes it is, I didn't care for 7/8/9 but 10 and beyond are very nice :) play around with containers and if you want a cool file system, check the nevada builds for what will be solaris 11 8)

I'm not sure if desktopbsd boots the same way with kernel options as free does, but I would imagine it does. If your given the choice, choose, option 2 to disable ACPI and see if that helps, from what I can find. www.google.com/bsd is that it might have to do with acpi, but that was a quick search I'm in a class for work. :)

ufs or ufs2 If its 6.0 its ufs2 I think the 5.x was also ufs2, but I would imagine that ufs module would also read it. [root@kainos ~]# modprobe ufs [root@kainos ~]# lsmod | grep ufs ufs 70597 0 [root@kainos ~]# If you get time, google around google.com/linux and google.com/bsd to make sure there isn't a ufs2 module out there and make sure you can r/w if that is what you need, I don't know if it is "experimental" or not.

Sorry, I missed your pm on irc, i was busy :) I haven't tried any of the other bsd, only free/net/open bsd and currently running freebsd on my box now. If you have the time to sit down and just do FreeBSD 6.0, I would. Yes, you can play et/ut/armyops just fine :) I should have posted a review of freebsd 6 here, but I've been running it on my main box for a month now and love it. Might have forgot everything I've done to it.

rysnc is in progress # zpool iostat -v zfs 5 10 capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 627M 930G 0 3 430 237K raidz 627M 930G 0 3 430 237K c0d0 - - 0 3 207 79.6K c1d0 - - 0 3 546 79.6K c2d0 - - 0 3 398 79.6K c3d0 - - 0 2 504 79.3K ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 673M 930G 0 60 0 6.73M raidz 673M 930G 0 60 0 6.73M c0d0 - - 0 61 0 2.25M c1d0 - - 0 61 0 2.25M c2d0 - - 0 60 0 2.25M c3d0 - - 0 58 0 2.25M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 719M 930G 0 63 204 6.94M raidz 719M 930G 0 63 204 6.94M c0d0 - - 0 63 0 2.32M c1d0 - - 0 63 0 2.32M c2d0 - - 0 63 0 2.32M c3d0 - - 0 61 12.8K 2.32M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 764M 930G 0 59 0 6.46M raidz 764M 930G 0 59 0 6.46M c0d0 - - 0 59 0 2.16M c1d0 - - 0 59 0 2.16M c2d0 - - 0 59 0 2.16M c3d0 - - 0 57 0 2.16M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 810M 930G 0 68 0 7.80M raidz 810M 930G 0 68 0 7.80M c0d0 - - 0 69 0 2.61M c1d0 - - 0 69 0 2.61M c2d0 - - 0 68 0 2.61M c3d0 - - 0 67 0 2.61M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 859M 930G 0 60 0 6.61M raidz 859M 930G 0 60 0 6.61M c0d0 - - 0 60 0 2.21M c1d0 - - 0 60 0 2.21M c2d0 - - 0 60 0 2.21M c3d0 - - 0 58 0 2.21M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 905M 930G 0 68 0 7.70M raidz 905M 930G 0 68 0 7.70M c0d0 - - 0 69 0 2.57M c1d0 - - 0 69 0 2.57M c2d0 - - 0 68 0 2.57M c3d0 - - 0 67 0 2.57M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 954M 930G 0 66 0 7.48M raidz 954M 930G 0 66 0 7.48M c0d0 - - 0 66 0 2.50M c1d0 - - 0 66 0 2.50M c2d0 - - 0 66 0 2.50M c3d0 - - 0 64 0 2.50M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 1003M 930G 0 59 0 6.31M raidz 1003M 930G 0 59 0 6.31M c0d0 - - 0 59 0 2.11M c1d0 - - 0 59 0 2.11M c2d0 - - 0 59 0 2.11M c3d0 - - 0 57 0 2.11M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zfs 1.02G 930G 0 65 817 4.99M raidz 1.02G 930G 0 65 817 4.99M c0d0 - - 0 65 12.8K 1.67M c1d0 - - 0 65 12.8K 1.67M c2d0 - - 0 65 12.8K 1.67M c3d0 - - 0 64 0 1.66M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- My home dir is only 120gb, my wifes is going to suck, 450gb being used......

Welp, I got my backup server running solaris nevada 27a with zfs raidz for my home spaces ;) quick/easy and sweeeeeet! # zpool create zfs raidz c0d0 c1d0 c2d0 c3d0 # zfs create zfs/home # zfs set mountpoint=/export/home zfs/home # zfs create zfs/home/amy # zfs create zfs/home/justin # zfs set compression=on zfs/home # zfs set quota=600g zfs/home/amy # zfs set quota=150g zfs/home/justin # zfs set sharenfs=rw zfs/home Now for some stats # zpool status -vx zfs pool 'zfs' is healthy # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zfs 436K 924G 16K /zfs zfs/home 256K 924G 18.0K /export/home zfs/home/amy 16K 600G 16K /export/home/amy zfs/home/justin 222K 150G 222K /export/home/justin # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT zfs 931G 446K 931G 0% ONLINE - # zpool status -v pool: zfs state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zfs ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz ONLINE 0 0 0 c0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 TIme to rsync my main server and let her rip!!!

Or change up and play with *BSD *Solaris, so many *nix options. It's like a big fun toy store! :lol:

I have 2 19" @ 1600x1200 so basically 3200x1200 :)

Changed wallpaper/icons/theme how original eh?

Is /dev/cdrom linked to anything?

where is your cdrom? dmesg | egrep -i '(cd|dvd)' hda: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA In xmms Preferences/options Audio I/O Plugins Cd Audio Player Config Device ??what is this ?? Directory ?? what is this ?? Hit "Check Drive" If you have more than one drive and it doesn't see the 2nd one, hit "Add drive" Do you have cdrom stuff under /mnt or /media are those linked to anything (device)

This should also help with most of the extra stuff you will want to add. http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_in...tion_notes.html