Ruminations on the Digital Realm

After working and playing with PC-BSD for over a month I believe it is one open source desktop to keep a close eye on. So it is good to see a new release bringing it up to version 1.4.1.
This version contains some updates and some fixes:
* Upgrades Compiz 0.5.2 to Compiz-Fusion 0.6.0
* Switches from HPIJS [...]

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Thirty days with PC-BSD. One month that flew by. In this month I tried to work with PC-BSD every day, sometimes from a more novice viewpoint, sometimes by pushing the limits from the perspective of the more daring user. There are still issues that haven’t been tested yet like mounting network shares at boot time [...]

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In the course of this month there were various issues that couldn’t be solved immediately. In the comments there were quite a few suggestions on how to solve them and it is only fair to explore the solutions and fix the problems.
The bleeding edge in packages
In one the early articles I noticed the difference in [...]

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As the end of the 30 days draws near it is time to do some crash tests. The more experienced Linux or *BSD user knows that you need to shutdown your computer decently. Even if the graphical user interface freezes up on you, you know there is a way out via on of the other [...]

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One might almost think that gaming under PC-BSD is predominantly for those who like shooters. Well, not completely. There are other games, but I have found the FPS games to be among those who are well-developed and interesting. Other games pale in comparison to most of their commercial proprietary counterparts. Like the first two of [...]

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