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I was really getting annoyed with the stuttering performance of zfs v6 on my FreeBSD 7.2 desktop. For example, a HD movie would stutter every couple seconds when accessed from zfs but play smoothly from a UFS2 filesystem on the same hard drive. With a tip from one of the zfs porters and...

I've posted i386 and amd64 test builds of Chromium that are up to date with their repo as of last night. Some smaller stuff, like SSL through NSS, still doesn't work but I've been using Chromium on my FreeBSD desktop for the last couple days and it's very fast and stable. :e It was a bit...

I recently wanted to setup X11 forwarding on a build server so that I could run the app remotely after building, with the GUI forwarded to my local display. I installed the xauth port on the build server and logged in using ssh -Y and was able to forward the display. You do not need an X...

After a couple week's respite, we're back to building Chromium. John Companies has graciously offered a build server for Chromium, since Ben's machine didn't have enough memory. I've started building and will report progress and patches here. If anyone else is interested in building or...

Ben's run into build problems on his machine cuz it's not powerful enough, can anybody supply a better build environment for him? Thanks for the link, Joel, I hadn't seen that. I sent an email out to Ariff suggesting that he package that up as a FreeBSD port, so that any ALSA apps can easily...

Alright, Chromium now builds and links on FreeBSD, with the audio player that uses ALSA on linux disabled for now, but the build doesn't run for long so if anyone wants to build and help debug, here's Ben's new patch and of course you'll need Ben's setup info. You may also need some other small...

Ben continues to hack away at a FreeBSD build, he just told me he got it to finally build but it instantly died when run. Meanwhile, I tried to run the linux rpm on a i386 FreeBSD Virtualbox, as opposed to my amd64 system, and I think the linux Chromium build gets a bit farther on i386, failing...

Haha, Oxyd, good question, looks like Chromium has a built-in media player, which makes sense if it's going to be the basis of ChromeOS. However, that's Google's problem if they want to run multimedia through the browser, may be better just to disable it for now if nobody cares enough to write...

OK, work continues on a FreeBSD port of Chromium by a FreeBSD committer. He just told me he got much of it to build, with the exception of the parts that rely on NSS 3.12 and ALSA. Help from the FreeBSD community would be appreciated on those two fronts and on this Chromium port in general. I...

Not sure about your problem but I finally got linux-flashplugin9 working with Konqueror on Freebsd 7.2-amd64 so I thought I'd report what I did here. I started with the instructions here, except I used f10. Then, to get Konqueror to recognize the flash plugin, I went into the Plugins settings...

I finally compiled VirtualBox, after installing the lib32 libraries on my 7.2-amd64 system as detailed here, and set it up as the handbook says but had the same problem where it appeared to be running but nothing happened. I took a look at the FreeBSD wiki page for VirtualBox and noticed the...

Looks like someone just started working on a Chromium port, in case anybody else wants to pitch in. jrick, I tried the w3m FreeBSD port but it doesn't compile. nslay, I agree, I don't see ChromeOS going anywhere because the web stack is fundamentally flawed. You may be interested in the...

I should also note that I am very interested in running Chromium on FreeBSD, but unfortunately I'm unaware of any ongoing effort on a FreeBSD port. My source analysis found that the Chromium codebase is mostly BSD-licensed, with almost all the new frontend source files from Google BSD-licensed...

This guide worked for me, so much easier than a CD install, particularly since I don't use CDs at all. I wrote the first CD's iso to my flash stick and was able to do a (kern?)-developer install with X in sysinstall without needing the other CDs. I'm glad to see that FreeBSD 8.0 will have a...

I was inspired by the recent Fedora rpms to try and install Chromium using the Fedora Core 10 emulation on FreeBSD 7.2. I wasn't able to get Chromium completely running but I thought I'd list what I did here, so others can try too. After installing the following ports using the information...