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.
I am attending SCaLE this weekend, which despite popular belief, does not stand for Southern California alternative (to) Linux Expo. I’ll be hanging out at the FreeBSD Booth with several friends and co-workers, so come by for a demo! Also, freebsdgirl will be answering questions about sysinstall in regards to what it does better than the new PC-BSD installer. Why? Because PC-BSD’s installer can be used for automated vanilla freebsd installs, too. In fact, I don’t know why anyone would use sysinstall (the 90′s called, they want their installer back!) OUCH! But in all seriousness, use our installer. Seriously.
Now time for some photo-fillerz!
Don't mistake this as a "friendly" game of ping pong, they are out for BLOOD.
One of our production lines featuring JoJo hard at work!
This is where the real problem solving occurs.
Custom BSD Artwork found in the iXsystems conference room. Left to right: FreeBSD Bobble, Beastie, and the PC-BSD Flame.
That’s all for now, I may post another blog after the tradeshow, or not! lol jk jk…
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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.