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GPL's copyleft means (in your case), once you link your (BSD) code against a GPL library, the distribution of both effectively becomes GPL. Everything that's in the kernel (modules for instance) must, thus, be GPL. (they link against the kernel sources) Libraries can be BSD too, if they...

That'd be totally great. The loader.conf entry you mention is the only point that could be invalid, once you add or change hard disks. I will try it it a few days. If you do before me, please post your results. If it works, I'll update the tutorial of course.

Hi, i just wrote a howto for installing the BETA-1 of FreeBSD 9 with an encrypted root (ufs) using 80% bsdinstall and 20% shell. I uploaded the howto to an external address (sorry): LINK Note: The howto doesn't really explain much. It just shows how it can be done. Read the man pages of...

How do you think, the issues of users submitting malware could be minimized? The only think that comes to mind is having at least n users commit the exactly same package and compare the checksums. But that idea seems useless, someone with access to enough boxes will probably be able to work...

How about TVs and HDD-Recorders? My girlfriend's family bought one (TV with HDD-Rec.) recently. Good her father read the specs. :-)

Two more tools you might find interesting or useful: offlineimap synchronizes remote imap with local maildirs. If you use mutt or something else doesn't matter, the maildir is compatible. And: You have ALL your mails (not just a cache) available offline. sieve is a (afaik widely) supported...

Ok, I read through all of the links yesterday and figured there are two major, suspected problems with GPLv3, that did not exist with GPLv2: 'Distributing' a FreeBSD (with GPLv3 Code in it, like gcc) in any way, be it a mirror or an embedded application makes YOU a distributor of GPLv3 code...

Hmm, ok. That confuses me. According to my interpretation of the table in the Wiki, the feature freeze should have happened on June 27th. Is the information wrong - or has "Actual" another meaning? Action | Expected | Actual (...) Code slush (feature freeze) | 2011-06-19...

Yeah, IF :-) only I had one of those.. My good old Dell laptop's DSDTs don't even compile with a recent iasl My friends HP consumer laptops were supported even worse, though. @topic: Still, IMO using FreeBSD on a laptop - even if not fully supported - makes a lot of sense if you wish to learn...

Thanks a lot for the link! The wiki-page is great. I didn't know that the feature-freeze already happened. In this case, I might as well start help testing for 9 and upgrade my laptop. (Can't await the first -RC for the server. :-D )

FreeBSD certainly isn't the perfect choice for all laptop systems. The number one reason I wouldn't suggest it to anyone ad-hoc is hardware support. If you don't have a valid BIOS, you might have ACPI problems. If you don't have a well supported WLAN device, expect it not to work at all or crash...

Hi, hope such a question is ok: Does someone have an idea when FreeBSD 9 will be released? I skimmed through the -current list back to April and checked http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ , but no info whatsoever. Is there a place to find release estimates? I don't care if it's +- a week...

Haha, you're lucky. I found this on the freebsd-current mailing list a few hours ago and bookmarked it: ;-) http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132

What's the problem with GPLv3 and BSD? What's _different_ compared to GPLv2, that makes it infeasible to use GCC as a userland tool in FreeBSD?