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Great! That should be good to visit. Is there a time of day when |
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people are more likely to be on? I may try this evening (I'm in US |
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mountain time). |
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-Thanks, Joe |
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Ignacio Arqué-Latour wrote: |
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> Joe |
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>> Is the project active right now? |
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> Yes |
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>> I have high hopes of setting up a working desktop, and I'd be glad to |
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> contribute in whatever way I can to the effort. |
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> OK, that is the attitude! |
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> You are going to find plenty of help from the developers in our irc channel |
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> (inclusive while you are installing), please meet us on: |
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> channel: #gentoo-bsd |
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> server: irc.freenode.net |
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> I hope to see you soom in the channel ;-) |
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> -- Ignacio |
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> On 4/18/07, Joe Peterson <joe@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I am in the process of trying out Gentoo/FreeBSD - I love the idea of |
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>> being able to use the very cool portage system on BSD! |
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>> Anyway, I have tried the install twice, the second time doing the |
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>> "emerge -e system" before the kernel build, but I am getting stuck at |
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>> the same issue: I get TCP timeouts to some sites. This is such a |
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>> bummer, and I am asking if anyone knows a solutuon. I have seen some |
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>> other postings to this list that may be the same issue (packet mangling?). |
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>> |
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>> Anyway, as an example, I can never FTP to www.astron.com (where the |
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>> "file" package, among other things, lives). Even if I use wget or lynx |
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>> to do an FTP connection, it simply hangs. I *can* get to this site |
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>> using Windows, Linux, and regular FreeBSD (non-Gentoo) from the same |
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>> machine and on the same network, so it has to be something to do with |
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>> Gentoo/FreeBSD in particular. |
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>> |
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>> If I can find a way past this problem, I have high hopes of setting up a |
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>> working desktop, and I'd be glad to contribute in whatever way I can to |
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>> the effort. Is the project active right now? I have not seen much |
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>> activity as of late. I do wish the best for this project, since I think |
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>> it is valuable! |
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>> |
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>> Thanks! Joe |
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>> -- |
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>> gentoo-bsd@g.o mailing list |
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