Joe<br>> Is the project active right now? <br>Yes<br>> I have high hopes of setting up a working desktop, and I'd be glad to contribute in whatever way I can to the effort.<br>OK, that is the attitude! <br>You are going to find plenty of help from the developers in our irc channel (inclusive while you are installing), please meet us on:
<br>channel: #gentoo-bsd <br>server: <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a><br><br>I hope to see you soom in the channel ;-)<br><br>-- Ignacio<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Joe Peterson</b> <<a href="mailto:joe@...">joe@...</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am in the process of trying out Gentoo/FreeBSD - I love the idea of
<br>being able to use the very cool portage system on BSD!<br><br>Anyway, I have tried the install twice, the second time doing the<br>"emerge -e system" before the kernel build, but I am getting stuck at<br>the same issue: I get TCP timeouts to some sites. This is such a
<br>bummer, and I am asking if anyone knows a solutuon. I have seen some<br>other postings to this list that may be the same issue (packet mangling?).<br><br>Anyway, as an example, I can never FTP to <a href="http://www.astron.com">
www.astron.com</a> (where the<br>"file" package, among other things, lives). Even if I use wget or lynx<br>to do an FTP connection, it simply hangs. I *can* get to this site<br>using Windows, Linux, and regular FreeBSD (non-Gentoo) from the same
<br>machine and on the same network, so it has to be something to do with<br>Gentoo/FreeBSD in particular.<br><br>If I can find a way past this problem, I have high hopes of setting up a<br>working desktop, and I'd be glad to contribute in whatever way I can to
<br>the effort. Is the project active right now? I have not seen much<br>activity as of late. I do wish the best for this project, since I think<br>it is valuable!<br><br> Thanks! Joe<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-bsd@g.o">
gentoo-bsd@g.o</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
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