The state of Mono 2.6 on FreeBSD
You wight have seen that mono 2.6 has been released for a while and is still not available in FreeBSD ports. Here are a few reasons.
Unbreaking Mono on FreeBSD 6.4
A few days ago ports/140916: lang/mono (2.4.2.3) installation fails was opened. The reported problem had already been reported a few time but with insufficient feedback so far and I was not able to diagnose the problem, not mentioning providing a fix. But this time, the reporter could spot that the problem was happening for him only with FreeBSD-6.4.
OpenRD console access on FreeBSD.
This morning, I received the Open-RD I bought a few days ago and started playing with my new device. One of the first thing I wanted to access was (of course) the system console. While the default setup provides a SSH daemon and even GDM and a full desktop, my goal is to have FreeBSD on this device and move the services I run at home from my personal computer to this low-consumption computer (and I don't intend to switch to GNU/Linux).
Introducing ZFS support in portshaker(8)
portshaker(8) is a tool designed for merging partial ports trees into the FreeBSD ports tree. In other words, it implements some kind of overlay for the FreeBSD ports.
Banshee: Like Frankenstein! It rips!
A while ago (I mean when it landed in the FreeBSD ports tree), Banshee reacted when a music CD-ROM was in a CD-Drive: it crashed. Well, not so cool in fact, you had to double-check it was empty before launching the player...
Packing structures with Mono or how to fix alignment problems for P/Invoke
I have just spent a while wondering why the size of some data structures in C# was wrong while writing bindings to the CD-ROM control features of the FreeBSD libc.
Considering the following code snippet…
Updating FreeBSD 7 (i386) to 8 (amd64)
How to update to the latest FreeBSD version, switch to 64 bit, and switch to full ZFS. In short, use the best I can have (or what is supposed to be the best I can have) on my computer.
LINQ, PostgreSQL and Mono
LINQ to DB is planned for mono-2.6, however I wanted to access data from a PostgreSQL database, without spending much time playing with Npgsql, and using the stable version of mono: 2.4.2.3.
1 year, 1 month, 1 week, 1 day
Oh No, Not Again
Help Wim Vandeputte
After my call for saving the FreeBSD magazine, I want to tell you about Wim Vandeputte.
In each Free/Libre software event I attended, Wim was the guy promoting OpenBSD.
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