Android, BAFUG, and Camp KDE
Well, looks like this is my first post of the year… Happy 2010!! I bricked my Android phone about 2 months ago. I know, pretty lame. But all the custom Android builds needed testing, so I thought I’d take a chance. My first attempt was successful, which lead me to believe that rooting the Android was trivial. After a few JF roms, I decided to give Cyanogen a try. The feature I was craving was Apps2SD. It seemed silly that I couldn’t install apps to my SD card. I ended up bricking the phone while flashing hboot to a newer version. After this I lost the recovery console and the bootloader. Thankfully, Randi (freebsdgirl) had an extra G1 around while I wait for my replacement to ship. Thanks Randi!!
The monthly Bay Area FreeBSD User Group was at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View last night. We talked about why a user should run ZFS (thanks Xin Li), installing vanilla FreeBSD with the PC-BSD installer, and why sysinstall should die (thanks again Randi! lol jkjk!!!). Overall, it was an entertaining and informative evening.
I am going to Camp KDE in San Diego tonight and staying til Monday afternoon. Kris Moore will be presenting “KDE4 on PC-BSD: Creating a User-Friendly Desktop”. The schedule is posted here: http://camp.kde.org/schedule.html. I’ll be rocking the Lenovo S10-2 with PC-BSD 8.0 Beta. In fact, I am getting it loaded with PBI’s right now.
If I can keep the battery charged, I plan on using my Android to post some live video blogs to http://qik.com/jnixon. You can also watch the live stream or archived videos on this blog.
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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.