Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:33:07 -0600 From: "David S. Besade" <webmaster@machowto.com> To: <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: A Little Update Message-ID: <BF79E533.2266%webmaster@machowto.com>
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Hey Guys, I thought I would give the developers a little heads up on my progress through Beta-3 to RC1. I know you probably have your own test machines, however I have been waiting for a Tier 1 release since FreeBSD 4.4 and now that I have the time to help.. I am going to try. ** Machine Specs ** iMac DV Special Edition 400Mhz G3 384MB PC100 RAM Dual USB Dual Firewire 10/100 Ethernet 8MB Rage 128 Slot Load DVD ** How I installed Ports ** I Just FTP'd into the FreeBSD Main server and downloaded ports.tar.gz. Then, after installing wget, I used csup to install the source and update ports. Works great. No Problems. If you all need someone to start going through ports and test compiling everything, let me know, this is a local machine and I can work on that and send in the logs for the failures. ** Installing the stuff the installer doesn't ** After I got the source downloaded, I went through and installed the man files, dict (for pico and iSpell), and various other trinkets including OpenSSL and the like although I installed perl from ports for ease of upgrading later if needed. So Far everything has been stable, I am going to compile a optimized kernel tonight to help with build speeds as I don't need the debug output to test build. I have been working on a Quad Xeon and the AMD64 port as well, good stuff they got ACPI sorta working ;). A Big Thank you to Peter & Crew for making this happen. -Dave
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