Skip to content

Category Archives: FreeBSD

Eating low-hanging fruit

I’m on holiday, so I can spend my free time working on FreeBSD.
At the moment, my target is getting interested in the networking part of the system and I chose to start my exploration from the low hanging userland fruit listed in the Networking wiki page.
It’s quite fun, although sometimes I find myself reading man [...]

Posted 03 April 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (2) °

A jails chapter for the handbook, eventually.

Yesterday, Daniel (danger@) checked the chapter about jails in. I wrote it while or right after having written my paper for EuroBSDCon 2005, more than a year and a half ago.
I’m really happy to hear that my contribution went through in the end.
FreeBSD has one of the best documentation project of the whole open-source world, [...]

Posted 23 March 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (1) °

WTF. How to set a blacklist for HAL? (no, this is not an howto, it is a question)

For my 21th birthday, my friends gave me a 4GB USB pen as a present. I never had USB pens with capacity >32MB, so this was a really appreciated present.
But.
But my FreeBSD system gets stuck and freezes when I insert it *and* HAL (not the Atheros’s one, the freedesktop.org’s one) is running. The system works [...]

Posted 28 February 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (4) °

FreeSBIE and tinyBSD and nanoBSD and…any other?

After having closed most mdmfs /mount_mfs related PR’s last week, I’m going to work on FreeSBIE again.
Above all, I’m interesting in integrating tinyBSD’s and/or nanoBSD’s features that FreeSBIE may be missing so that I can ask for permission to import it in the base system and maybe remove nano and tiny, so that we have [...]

Posted 21 February 2007 † Matteo § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °

Passive Cooling, at last

Eventually, I took 5 minutes of my time and adjusted the sysctl values needed for passive cooling my amd64 machine (running i386 -CURRENT because of ndis(4) support).
It identifies itself as:
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (2200.10-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = “AuthenticAMD” Id = 0xf7a Stepping = 10
[...]

Posted 19 February 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (0) °

“with hat: PR-buster”

Now that I released FreeSBIE 2.0.1, I can wear my favourite hat again and work on PR’s and on my TODO.
I always have fun with bugs.

Posted 16 February 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (0) °

FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RELEASE available!

All,
you may remember that FreeSBIE 2.0 was released on January 15th. It turned out it had some annoying bugs, one of which was especially serious, as it prevents USB mice from working. This fact led us, the FreeSBIE Staff, to develop a bugfix release, 2.0.1. All the bugs that have been pointed out were solved [...]

Posted 11 February 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (2) °

Testers wanted: FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RC2 available

A new ISO image is available, FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC2. It is the second release candidate for FreeSBIE 2.0.1, and hopefully the last before the release. I’d like to thank all the testers who reported bugs.

You can get it from our BitTorrent server: http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RC2.iso.torrent
If I don’t get any additional bug report in the next 7 days, I’ll [...]

Posted 03 February 2007 † Matteo § Photos ‡ Comments (0) °

Call For Testers: FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC

All,
as you may have noticed, there was a serious bug in FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE: devd didn’t get started at boot due to a bug in the backup plugin and USB mice didn’t get any moused on their port.
I solved this and other bugs (see recent commits) and would like you to test a new image which [...]

Posted 25 January 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (1) °

Interview for Distrowatch

I was interviewed by Distrowatch and they published my answers today on their Distrowatch Weekly, Issue 28.

Posted 22 January 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (4) °