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Working on Xorg Stuff!

Hiho… Well I know I haven’t been writing for a long time but there are always reasons behind it . Lately I have been busy with my job and personal life, but anyway I’m still alive and I have started working on FreeBSD since a while. As stated in the subject, why I’m writing today [...]

[Ports] FreeBSD 10 Fixes

FreeBSD 10.0 Ports fixes. Yesterday I have committed a patch to fix mostly all problems under FreeBSD 10. I plan to make 10 exp-run after the 9.0 Release within 2 weeks to poke maintainers and upstream as to ensure that for the 10.0 Release, everything is fixed and we can remove the current workaround. Appreciate all [...]

portscout is back ..

Hi, I finally managed to get portscout back on a stable server. I have removed all mail addresses from the old portscout to cleanup all the unused mail addresses. If you are a maintainer and would like to get a mail notification, please drop me a mail using your maintainer mail address and I’ll add [...]

Looking for some Build servers..

Hey, I’m looking for some fast Tinderbox build server (i386|amd64) for free, if anyone have them please let me know … – Martin

[ECFT] drm/dri/mesa/xorg-server update [Part 1]

Hi, First of all, note that this is very experimental, so you really have to know what you’re doing. We managed to get drm/dri with the newer xorg-server to work, and we have removed the support for WITHOUT_NOUVEAU. We have just updated the xorg-dev repo: – libdrm -> 2.4.24 – libGL to 7.10.1 – libGLU [...]

FreeBSD needs fresh Blood!

Oh well, it’s time to write some nice job offer, of course it’s all for free, and you can’t earn any money out of it, but you’ll get a big thanks, hugs and love from the community. Ask your self, how long have you been using FreeBSD. Months? Years? Decades? And you love using it [...]

PCBSD sponsor FreeBSD KDE Build box

I’d like to note that the KDE FreeBSD Team is now receiving assistance from PCBSD again. Since I left the KDE Team, things have gone terribly wrong. After having a few conversations with my old team, I finally figured out what the problems were. But the main problem was missing a package build system, and [...]

[FreeBSD] Python 2.7 default

After a lot work, i’m happy to announce that python 2.7.1 now the default version on the FreeBSD portstree. Please read careful ports/UPDATING. I’d like to say many thanks to: lwhsu@, wen@, bf@ Happy Updating.

Webtropia servers with FreeBSD.

Webtropia is a Server Provider in Germany that supports FreeBSD. I have some new machines there with a default FreeBSD installation. Unfortunately there are some small bugs in the installation routine, when the filesytem is created for the first time without softupdates, you can easily change it in the rescue system, but the real problem [...]

Xorg 7.5.1 committed

Just for the record: I have Xorg 7.5.1 committed, also the ports tree is now open. It gives a lot of updates – openldap, autotools, pear, cmake, linux-* , python cleanups, gstreamer, xorg and mysql 5.5 is now default and a lot more