May 12, 2006
PC-BSD stuff
Dru Lavigne has a nice quick overview of using PC-BSD, the distro I use on my local machine. I've really been impressed with the v1.0 release - it installed painlessly on my machine and it connected up reasonably well with my Windows network. At least I can see Windows shares, but I can't seem to write to any of them. I'm still working out the kinks as far as getting it plugged into my home network.I also downloaded the VMWare Image and installed it on my work computer (which is a real sweet machine - dual 3.0ghz CPU, 2gb RAM, 160gb of RAID 1 hard drive), which runs the (free!) VMWare Server just swell. I've always been a big VMWare fan and with the free stuff they now offer, it is a no-brainer to use it.
One thing that virtual machines are just great for is testing out new software. By using the download VMWare image, I can check to see how my PBI (PCBSD Installation package) is coming along when installed on a vanilla machine. Yup, I'm working on my very first PBI, which will install Emacs 21. Following Dru's instructions for building PC-BSD packages, I was up and running fairly quickly. I hope to have a more complete report soon.
ONLamp.com -- Using PC-BSD
ONLamp.com -- Building Binary PC-BSD Packages
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