PC-BSD PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD. It is an easy to use solution which saves time and energy. Think of PC-BSD as a port. Someone made a port for FreeBSD, KDE, mail, IRC, office suite, and scores of other applications. If you want FreeBSD and lots of extras, it is available as a nice little …
IBM ThinkPad T41 This article describes how I installed FreeBSD 5.x on an IBM ThinkPad T41 so it dual-booted with the existing Windows XP Pro installation. Also described is: my dhclient.conf settings my Postfix configuration installing KDE from packages set up of xplanet installing the Project Evil work to use a Windows driver to get …
Xplanet – improve your background Xplanet is program which displays a picture of the Earth. It was inspired by Xearth. Xplanet can draw all the major planets and most satellites. I use it to provide the background image on my machines which run X. You can also download satellite images of cloud cover so your …
VNC – allowing remote access to graphical desktops VNC (an abbreviation for Virtual Network Computing) is a great client/server software package allowing remote network access to graphical desktops. TightVNC allows you to display X and Win32 desktops on remote X/Win32/Java displays. In short, it will allow me to access my FreeBSD box from my Windows …
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an ATI XPERT 128 patch for XFree86-4 Early this week, I bought an ATI XPERT 128 video card. This card was destined to be part of the box I talked about in my previous article about keyboards in headless boxes. The motherboard has an on-board S3 video card, but I failed to get that working. …