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This might be better treated as an X question so apologies if it is in the wrong place. I use fvwm and a short while ago I found that the menus stopped working. Everything running still seemed to work, but I could not switch desktops or open any new programs via any mouse operation. I decided...

I suppose that one of the problems here is the different uses that people want to put these systems to. I had a look at the board SirDice recommended and I thought it looked excellent value for the money: they do a more powerful one for EUR 65 that would be great for a boat computer project...

The Amiga box looks like a nice bit of kit, but I notice the starting price in UK is around GBP2100 which doesn't exactly rival a similar spec PC in the "cheap 'n' cheerful" stakes. Not the same sort of beast but I see the Lemote company I referred to above do this little box...

Me too :) Slightly off topic perhaps.... It would be nice if there was a drift away from the x86 platform anyway. I'm sure the issue of Microsoft and their Secure Boot system has been discussed here as it has on other forums, but I would like to get away from the whole thing. I really do...

Re: How to install a new .sty file properly? (TeX Live quest Well, sorry again because I don't actually know the answer to your question: I think there is an update-texmf but I might be wrong: as I said, I have not used TeX Live much (I always had TeTeX at work) and use my own directory for...

Re: How to install a new .sty file properly? (TeX Live quest I think, not sure, that your guess of usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/eukleides/ is the right one, but you might have to run the update-texmf utility for them to be found. Sorry that is a bit vague: my approach is to put all my own...

Not sure if this is any use to you since you have marked the issue as solved, but if you go to the port, run the configure script, and uncheck gconf and gtk support (I used xaw widgets instead of the latter) it all works fine.

I just received an email inviting me to subscribe. I thought it looked as if it might be interesting so went a little further. At least according to the information I was sent by the publisher, it is only available as an app that can be read on kindle, ipad, iphone or android device. So, not...

Fair point, but that was not my title for the post, it got edited to encourage more people to read it. My title was just Killer App and the suggestion was for something that would manage all connections. I have no problem with either wired or wireless via wpa_supplicant, my point about the...

Sorry but no, it is not easy. I can go from pub to hotspot to home to friend's house and swap wifi using wpa_supplicant quickly and easily. Mobile broadband uses a modem dongle that requires a ppp configuration script, these are not quick and easy to set up. I will accept that doing that is...

Fair point; in fact I can program in C moderately well and Perl to an extent, but I don't have time. I buy BSD goodies from time to time and donated something to last year's appeal so I have tried to do my bit that way. I accept that it is an obscure problem, but in a way, that comes right...

Time I got a life and stopped posting on this thread, but: There have been several replies that have stated that you can only use the Linux GUI application with Gnome or KDE, and a few others that have talked about bloat, and these are simply plain wrong: you do not need either of these to run...

A final postscript from me as OP. Thanks to all those who contributed, and particularly to those who made positive suggestions and even volunteered to contribute something: I wish you good luck with this. To those who got all hot and bothered with the suggestion that a GUI tool might be...

Since my original post I have installed the new 10.0 release on my laptop. Wifi works fine, as before (I kept my old wpa_supplicant.conf and everything connected straight away). However, my mobile broadband no longer works. I've kept the ppp.conf file and it's the same "dongle" as before, but...

I have been running FreeBSD 9.0 on my laptop for a couple of years. This included using mobile broadband via a Huawei E169 USB modem. This worked with no additional drivers. I have now upgraded to the newly released 10.0 and the device no longer works. When I plug it in, it is seen as a mass...

Thank you for that information. In fact, installing from ports worked fine. However, there is now a console window on the login page (I use xdm) which I have never had before. I presume I accepted some default compilation value that added it. Is there any way to get rid of it?

Ok, thanks for the information, I can try to build it from ports, it is just rather slow on laptop.

I have configured pkg (correctly as far as I know) and have tried to install xorg using it. I get this error message: pkg: No packages matching 'xorg' available in the repositories I have looked in the package repository and, indeed, there no longer appears to be an xorg package. Is...

Re: "Killer App" for FreeBSD? I think I did not express myself very well in my original post. To be a bit more clear perhaps: I like FreeBSD a lot. I think it has many virtues and that for people who want to run a Unix(-like) box it is now the best option. It seems to me to have many...

Re: "Killer App" for FreeBSD? I'm sure you're right, but there seems to be a general tide that has flowed from servers with dumb(ish) terminals to workstations with network file servers to standalone machines to laptops. I work at a large university that has thousands of students, the vast...