USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release Benn Bollay originally placed this article in the Reader Forum, but I thought it deserved an article of its own. Thanks Benn. 4.0-R: Quick and Dirty USB Mouse support Gentlebeings — For your quick and dirty USB Mouse support, please following these easy steps: Add the appropriate entries to […]
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BSDCon 2000 Last year we had FreeBSDCon 1999. This year we are going to have BSDCon2000. Yes, one conference for all BSD. I think that’s a great idea. See http://www.bsdcon.com/ for more information. I plan to be there. If you can get there, I urge you to go. It’s a good way to meet those
FreeBSD Diary news feeds This article tells you about the FreeBSD news feed. If you want to know how to set up a new server, you want this article instead. This article isn’t about news servers. It’s about short blurbs you see on web pages which give a brief outline of recent additions to
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System tools – toys I have found This topic deals with some system tools I’ve recently encounterd. I figured everyone should know about them. If you don’t see your favourite tool here, please add your comments. In some cases, I’ve merely reproduced the first bit of the man page for the command in question. Thanks
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User Friendly – a cartoon strip This article is about the cartoon strip User Friendly. Say what? User Friendly is a cartoon strip about a small ISP. They’re Linux based, but don’t hold that against them. It’s quite a funny strip. There’s a new cartoon every day. But lately, they’ve been featuring FreeBSD in the
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Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site In a sudden rush of blood to my head, I decided that I could and would start a mirror site for FreeBSD. The closest mirrors are in Australia. And I think we have a fair number of sites in New Zealand. So I installed the port. NOTE: a few
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Staying current with FreeBSD – using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD FreeBSD is not a static operating system. It is changing all the time. Changes eventually make their way from one -current to -stable to -release. For more detail, please see The Cutting Edge: FreeBSD-current and FreeBSD-stable of the FreeBSD Handbook. I have decided
Updating the ports collection This section shows you how I updated my ports collection. I’ll assume you have already installed cvsup. If you need just one port refreshed, try reading Installing a port without installing the ports. Why update the ports? I was trying to make Midnight Commander. But it wasn’t working. Here’s the
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Staying current with FreeBSD – using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD FreeBSD is not a static operating system. It is changing all the time. Changes eventually make their way from one -current to -stable to -release. For more detail, please see The Cutting Edge: FreeBSD-current and FreeBSD-stable of the FreeBSD Handbook. I have decided
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Before the disaster There isn’t much to this section. It’s just a ploy to get you to read the Emergency Restore Procedure of the FreeBSD Handbook. If you don’t have time to do it now, you certainly won’t have time to do it after the disaster. Creating a bootable floppy Here’s how I created a
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