Florent Thoumie

Last year I bought myself a Canon 300D Digital Rebel (US) / Canon EOS 300D (EU) and I’ve been learning slowly technical terms (exposure, shutter speed, ...) and how to use it.

Some weeks ago, I finally decided to buy a new lens to play with. I spend quite some time reading articles and reviews, and [...]

Well, not yet, but that’s not too far.

Two days ago, I started working on the experimental xorg-modular ports tree hosted by lesi (Dejan Lesjak, co-maintainer of x11 ports). I’ve done quite a few things, but I’m not going to detail everything here because it would be pointless. So, there are still some things to do but basically most of the work is done (see [...]

Following recent discussions, it seems that the CNAME is not going to happen because my arguments aren’t strong enough and I’m tired arguing and begging. I’ll keep maintaining bsdblogs and planet but I’ll stop advocating blogs to developers.

So, for the record, here are teh links (note that you can use either planet.xbsd.org or bsd-planet.droso.net):

http://planet.xbsd.org (planet [...]

pjd did it ! o/

Here is the announce.

Seeing there was quite a few people asking for a Google Earth port, I spent a few minutes to write it and added it to the Ports Collection. Following the commit, there has been quite a long discussion about issues with Google Earth on FreeBSD. To summarize, you need:

linux_base-fc4 and linux-xorg-libs installed (no other linux_base [...]

Well, I’m finally done with MFC’s. Most noticable commits :

fix rc.d/sshd with sshd installed from ports (link)
fix rc.d/amd with amd installed from ports (link)
allow rc.d/ntpd to use custom flags (link)
fix current issues with rc.d/jail (link)
synchronize rc.subr with NetBSD (link)

I have some ideas about what I’ll be working on later.