ok... so ive decided to try this baby out on an old 400mhz MMX i had laying around. install went well, she's up and running.

reading through the package install docs i decided i wanted to install vim, cant quite get used to vi. anyway, the docs suggested using

make search name=vim

to locate the port. i accedently typed

make searchname=vim

the machine is now busy compiling all sorts of stuff. libtools was one i saw go wooshing past, perl-5.x.x. was another. any ideas what it might be doing? its been going for about an hour.

one more question while im at it. i dont seem to be able to ssh to this machine as root. it asks me for the password 4 or 5 times then just gives me a permission denied error. the password is correct, i can login with it directly. where can i change this setting?

    its now compiling xmlparser-2.3.4 if that helps any. ive no idea what its doing!

      well... ive now just gotten home from work some 8 hours later and it still appears to be compiling stuff. thing is, i think it might be busted. it keeps repeating the same stuff over and over. probably about 100 lines or so.

      im gonna kill it, and reboot.

        ok... im gonna mark this thread resolved, though the issue still exists. ive decided to reinstall. i already managed to muck a few other things up. but yeah, looks like it might be fun.

          7 days later
          thorpe wrote:

          ok... im gonna mark this thread resolved, though the issue still exists. ive decided to reinstall. i already managed to muck a few other things up. but yeah, looks like it might be fun.

          FREEBSD
          semms to be many good LINUX guys choice of OS
          It is at University of Berkeley it was/is developed first.
          ( this is the 'B' of BSD )
          It also uses Bekeley database program, which is some kind of sharing utility
          You can setup your own FREEBSD server and share applications in this very format
          and so work 'together' with other clever LINUX developers

          FREEBSD project is very widely spread ( maybe not among Windows microsoft Users )
          It is something to look into seriously if you want to write your own open source applications.

          This above is how I have got it,
          though I never tried to install FREEBSD in my machine.
          If something of my above info is incorrect in some detail, just change and enlighten me
          and also thereby all other who reads this.

          Dalescop
          Wanted me to change to FREEBSD from my KUbuntu KDE LINUX
          see other topic in this forum.
          There is a nice auto install program that sets up FREEBSD
          and make your boot system able to login as root
          as I get it

          It cleans up such restrictions that we do not want as being LINUX Lovers.
          This is the main thing I got against this KUbuntu Linux Install I did:
          I can not login as root - and this is NOT the true LINUX programming spirit

          The idea is said to be security
          but as a root administrator of your own PC
          you have enough tools to setup restrictions for other users
          in your family or for others outside of your family
          on a shared computer.

          This is something that annoys and bothers many Ubuntu KUbuntu installlers today. ( I have checked out their support forum )
          This is also why Ubuntu will have to change this in future
          or be degraded to a second class dealer and provider of the LINUX OS

          Cheers, thorpe
          you know more of FREEBSD I see
          maybe you can add some overviewing info for 'normal low level knowledge windows users'

          depenguin freebsd ( search with www.google.se )
          http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/

          • is to remove dependencies of RedHat and other so called userfriendly Distributions of LINUX
          • it will 'clean up' your linux installation
          • and free the Linus Torvald, from FINLAND near Sweden,
            operation system to its original idea - openness and total control by you - the 'root' user

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            halojoy, freeBSD and BSD's in general are not linux. they are another completely different OS loosely based around unix.

              thorpe wrote:

              halojoy, freeBSD and BSD's in general are not linux. they are another completely different OS loosely based around unix.

              So we can say FreeBSD
              is not belonging to the LINUX group of OS.

              Okay, thanks.
              now I know I will not use FreeBSD

              I am after the best LINUX I can get.
              Not an UNIX based another system.

              /halojoy
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                well, if you want my opinion on the best linux, and we've gotta remember this is just my opinion. i highly recommend gentoo. not the easiest to setup, but well customizable and has by far the best install system around for installing software from source.

                installing gentoo will teach you allot about how linux works.

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