Comments on: First 9.0 Alpha Snapshot Available for Testing

By: dru

dru — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:48:36 +0000

Yup: http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/02/gem-kms-and-dri/
Everyone is pretty excited about it

By: Gustau Pérez

Gustau Pérez — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:43:09 +0000

Any progress ?

By: dru

dru — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:18:35 +0000

There should be an official announcement in a week or so about this Once the work starts, we’ll definitely post links as stuff is ready for testing.

By: Gustau Pérez

Gustau Pérez — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:31:12 +0000

Hi Dru,

I wonder if the port of KMS and GEM is being made by the PCBSD people. And I also wonder if we can help. What is its status ?

By: John

John — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:12:04 +0000

I want to see this as well. I know that others are working on it besides just Ubuntu. The below link is a package that can be changed in arch linux to support ATI or nvidia. I know a lot of work still needs to be done but I would love to be able to test this.

http://aur.pastebin.com/qqq7w0bt

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:13:51 +0000

Disregard this as I saw the response and I guess you have to go with how FreeBSD does things. I appreciate knowing more.

By: John

John — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:57:03 +0000

My message above was supposed to be a response but I had just installed some software and ran it and it seemed to clear the response and then when I entered in the information again it did not show up in the correct location. I just wanted to say that I was sorry that I forgot about portupgrade. I have not used PCBSD since it was like 1.some thing. I know at some point that they started to number these according to what version of FreeBSD they were using. One thing that would be nice and make it easier for new people is to have all updates done in one location rather then going to the command line. I like the command line myself but it would be helpful for those that come from other operating systems to have all updates done in one location and not make them go the command line to do this.

By: dru

dru — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:00:54 +0000

freebsd.orgIn the FreeBSD (PC-BSD) world, the current (unreleased) version is considered to be in flux and only cutting-edge users follow the src changes and apply the ones that interest them.

Once released, the OS is considered to be “production ready” and SA’s are used to advise of security updates. PC-BSD simplifies that process by automatically notifying the user and allowing the patch to be applied using Software Manager.

More information about the FreeBSD release engineering process can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html#docs.

By: John

John — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:38:44 +0000

I know these are just for testing. I have tested many Linux versions before and when security updates are released they are also released for the Alpha and Beta versions of there program. I will just have to learn the way BSD does these things.

By: John

John — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:35:44 +0000

I realize that it is just for testing but having tested many different Linux versions I know that when security updates are released that these show up to be installed. I will just have to learn how PCBSD does this.