From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 23 20:57:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FD037B401 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 20:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DE2743FB1 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 20:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@bsdprophet.org) Received: from adsl-67-39-36-114.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net (HELO bsdprophet.org) (bsdprophet%sbcglobal.net@67.39.36.114 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 May 2003 03:57:07 -0000 Message-ID: <3ECEED92.1040306@bsdprophet.org> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 22:57:06 -0500 From: Scott Corey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ja, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thiago_Silva_Concei=E7=E3o?= References: <3ECEE4CC.8040202@atribuna.com.br> In-Reply-To: <3ECEE4CC.8040202@atribuna.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Doubts X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 03:57:08 -0000 Thiago Silva Conceição wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed FreeBSD here, I have come from Linux so I am still > adaptating. I have some doubts: > > - How often the ports collection get updated? Is it whenever a new > release is out or constantly? Constantly > > - How do I do to update all the applications I have installed? I did the > "make world" thing here but It seems it doesn't update things like > gnome, XFree, kde and so on, or maybe I'm wrong. Something like 'apt-get > upgrade' from Debian Linux. If you have installed the ports , then try /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, also look into /usr/ports/net/cvsup and read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > - Is it possible to configure the console while in text mode to display > characters from other languages? I tried to configure the console font > and language through sysinstall but It didn't worked. My home language > is brazilian portuguese. Yes, look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html > > - There is an annoying thing on emacs. The backspace button doesn't work > as it usually do on other systems (erasing the last typed character). > How do I change this? I don't do emacs, so I can't help you there. > > Best regards, > Thiago