http://desktopbsd.net/blog Everything about DesktopBSD development Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:52:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After deleting lots of spam posts in the forums yesterday, I decided to spend a little time to prevent this from happening again in the future. As a first step, I upgraded the board software from the now rather outdated phpBB 2 to phpBB 3.0.2, which was released only a few ... http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/forums-software-upgraded-to-phpbb-302/ I am happy to announce that we are now making available 'cutting edge' builds of CrossOver. To start, we are providing experimental builds of CrossOver Games for Linux, Mac OS X, and now BSD systems. codeweavers So you can test the experimental build of Crossover Games on every FreeBSD 6 or ... http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/crossover-games-for-freebsd/ Right now I have some free time to update KDE4. Today i’ve committed the 5 Basic Ports (kdelibs4/base4/pimlib/runtime/workspace) with the implementation of bsd.kde4.mk. This allows further use of USE_KDE4 (actually, kdelibs, kdebase and pimlibs) for KDE4-related builds. Now I have to work on the implementation of all other related ports. /usr/home/miwi As ... http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/news-from-the-kde4-front/ Vermaden created some nice and stylish artwork for DesktopBSD, purely KISS. :) vermadens' resources http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/desktopbsd-artwork/ The FreeBSD Project is pleased to participate as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code 2008. This program funds students to contribute to an open source project over the summer break. We have had over 50 successful students working on FreeBSD as part of this program in 2005, ... http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/freebsd-google-summer-of-code-2008/ Since FreeBSD 6.2 there are some new sound drivers in FreeBSD, but one important driver is missing: emu10kx (Audigy2-4 non-pro). Don't use the version from ports anymore, it's really dated. But don't worry you can get the missing driver in no time. Just follow the instructions there in the README ... http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/sound-in-freebsd-6x/ First remember it's an early snapshot, so there will be certainly some problems! But apart from that it's DesktopBSD based on FreeBSD 7.0R. I did a first test, there are some minor quirks with the mounting tool and the scheduler is SCHED_4BSD, so it has got a performance drop especially ... http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/desktopbsd-17-snapshot/ It's done, the update to the DesktopBSD Tools is ready and now you can use it with portupgrade 2.4.x again. There are other improvements too, read it there. http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/desktopbsd-tools-16-in-ports/ KDE4 makes good progress. Version 4.0.2 is in the test repo now and works according the port-commiter Martin Willke quiet well and even better as the previous version. So it should be no problem to see KDE4 in the portstree with the advent of KDE4.1 in summer. via Martin ... http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/more-kde4-status/ There are some excellent drawings of the German artist Johannes Kretzschmar (beetlebum). He drew them for the Chemnitzer Linux Tag 2008. Tux and Beastie. They are under a Creative Commons (by-nc-nd). You can see and download them at the German Weblog F!XMBR (including a higher resolution at the end of ... http://desktopbsd.net/blog/index.php/new-beastie-art/