I have now decided to go away from Foresight Linux. Why that? Well first of all after my FreeBSD experiences I got back to Foresight Linux Alpha 2. I knew that it worked mostly and also I had to have something that worked for a presentation. And that it did ok. To more detail please [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘FreeBSD’
2008/01/16
FreeBSD II.
Oh wow, do people really use that OS? I have tested some of the window manager packages and only dwm 9wm and fluxbox seemed to work out of the box. As far as I have looked no windows manager registers itself in /usr/local/share/xsessions. So what you cant do is install GDM, install a bunch of window [...]
2008/01/14
NetBSD->FreeBSD ;)
OMG, I have tried NetBSD and yes the wireless drivers worked – but then I couldnt update firefox because cairo package was not available. Subjectively it felt like the boot time and also every input took ages. And as I finally managed to get Firefox built it always crashed and the display was just [...]
