Pepsi Refresh: Pedal Powered Solar Trike
With help from the Pepsi Refresh Challenge, Matt Olander and some close friends are taking on a feat of Epic proportions – to make daily travel less harmful. Stay healthy and happy by harnessing the power of your Body (and our Sun). Vote Now! The trike has room for two Adults and enough trunk space for a student’s books or a single mother’s groceries.
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OSCON 2010 – Portland
Welcome! OSCON 2010
BSD at OSCON 2010, Linux beware!
FreeBSD / PC-BSD @ OSCON 2010
scale8x and beyond!
Wow, it’s been awhile… Good thing I have my twitter account posting weekly digests here! I may change it to monthly digests. I don’t use twitter to post incremental updates about the texture, color, and smell of my poo. Maybe I should.
I hear we’re a few days away from the next release of PC-BSD, Hubble Edition. Hubble will be the release name for everything in the 8.x series instead of giving every dot release it’s own name, theme, and brand. For those FreeBSD users out there wondering wtf PC-BSD was doing with dual localbases will be happy to hear that we ditched this method for a ports jail (or what we call the Ports Console). New users can run into problems when installing ports on their base system, the Ports Console allows a user to install and run X apps (with sound too!) from the port jail. Yesterday, I used the port console to install the Mozilla Weave port, then copied the generated XPI to my home directory and installed it using the PBI version of FireFox. In the future, I would love to see PBI’s of all FireFox plugins found in ports.
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FreeNAS 0.8 is Highly Experimental, Proceed with Caution!
An experimental version of FreeNAS based on FreeBSD 8.1 is now available to checkout from sourceforge.net.
Two items to consider before checking out the source:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5819&start=10#p37152
– Warner Losh’s blog post on this release
http://freenas.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freenas/experimental/ix/README
– The README file
PC-BSD: Firefox opening files in Default KDE application
Something that used to irritate me about using Firefox in KDE is that I cannot open files in the download manager by double-clicking them. Turns out it’s really simple to do. I should make it clear that I am using PC-BSD Hubble Edition 8.0 which is built on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 with KDE 4.3.5, and Firefox 3.5.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Firefox/3.5.7) . If you’re using Firefox 2, this won’t work.
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James T. Nixon III
Lol, I know right!?
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Matt Olander
Great pix, James! Haha, that’s ironic that ISC, a customer of iX, won the server! PERFECT
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alan
One Question Habra version The 3 cds of the PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition
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Shaul
I would have to completely disagree with what you say how good PC-BSD is. And for the record, I do not use Linux, I do not have Linux installed on any systems. With the code they develop on top of FreeBSD for PC-BSD has consistency issue, and just don’t think they pay close enough attention to code correctness, I think it gets sluggish. Although my first choice is always to use OpenBSD on everything, I have set up FreeBSD as a desktop system. All I do is select minimal install, populate ports and source, patch the system, compile KDE4 from ports, and I find everything runs better and quicker that way. Once Firefox has been compiled from ports, I have seen it load instantaneously when you select it from KMenu. With PCBSD being developed for people who don’t know any tech stuff, and their own lack of proper auditing of code in the manner of say OpenBSD, I see definite performance issues, and some speed issues. I think it just gets bogged down. So that is why I would definitely disagree with what you say about how good PC-BSD is.