Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:50:20 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> To: Mark Gladman <mark@fantoma.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Err.. to be honest, I'm not sure what to put here. Message-ID: <3E0214EC.1020403@pantherdragon.org> References: <3E01DC28.905@fantoma.net>
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Mark Gladman wrote: > 'Lo to whomever reads this! > > I've got a little question.. I've read through the FreeBSD handbook, and > also purchased and read the book "FreeBSD Unleashed", and after > finishing both documents (well.. all the relevent bits of the documents, > since at this stage I'm just setting up a network gateway/firewall and a > workstation). I found that I just flew through the documents in just a > few days, and am thinking "Have I missed something major here?" > And am pretty much wondering.. well.. have I missed anything? :) > It seems like I can do pretty much anything (edit files in /etc/, > install ports, recompile the kernel, configure the GUI and installed > programmes, setup networking and smbfs (although I've still got to get > around to setting up Samba itself)) > > So.. err.. yeah.. any help or comments would be greatly appreciated :) How much work have you done on your kernel config? There's a number of things to tune. How about putting FreeBSD on creaky old hardware? Got vinum? Got netgraph? You could cvsup and rebuild the world, too. That's always tons o' fun. RELENG_4_7 would be a good start. Don't forget to pull down -doc as well. There's all kinds of stuff to do there like tuning your make.conf to build all the stuff you want and cut out stuff you don't need, and adjusting the compiler flags to optimize for your hardware. You can install portupgrade (do this BEFORE cvsup'ing ports-all!!!!), cvsup your ports tree, then upgrade anything portupgrade tells you is out of date. That should given you at least a day or two's worth of stuff to do, and a week of smaller tasks. You can also figure out how to automate the process, even do optimized makes for multiple machines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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