Tag Archives: FreeBSD

RFC: OpenSMTPD for FreeBSD

I don’t like writing long posts so let’s go straight to the point. Here is a shar to test mail/opensmtpd on FreeBSD. Read the comments in the Makefile. Also this is just a preview. The port isn’t complete (I haven’t checked the conflicts yet and it doesn’t update mailer.conf).

For sample configs, have a look there.

Comments/patches welcome.

Planet FreeBSD and Feedburner

Following Murray’s suggestion to use feedburner to track Planet FreeBSD subscribers, I’ve created feeds and added badges to Planet FreeBSD frontpages. So far it still shows 0 subscribers but I’ve done the necessary tweaking to point the rss/atom feeds to the new one. I hope the readers will be smart enough to notice the rss to atom change. We’ll see how it works out.

I’ve also removed the rss10/opml/foaf feeds as they seem to be mostly requested by crawlers. If you’re using it and can give a reasonable reason why you can’t use atom, drop me an email.

blogs.freebsdish.org updated to wordpress-mu 2.8.2

WordPress-MU 2.8.2 fixes a XSS vulnerability and a few other annoying bugs (like the auto-upgrade features).

Source

WordPress-MU updated to 2.8.1

Following WordPress-MU 2.8.1 release, I’ve updated the copy on blogs.freebsdish.org. Apparently there’s a bug with the auto-upgrader as it still says I should update to 2.8.1.

As usual, poke me if you encounter any issue.

Banshee updated to 1.5.0 in FreeBSD Ports

If you haven’t read it yet, Banshee 1.5.0 was released yesterday. I’ve just updated the port. I had to drop my .config/banshee-1 directory and start over but that was only a minor issue since my library was rather small. Hopefully this was just a local problem.

Check out this announcement for more details about the new features.

Moonshine enters FreeBSD Ports

I’ve had the port locally for some time, but since the tree was frozen and there was no rush to commit it, I forgot about it. Anyway, here it is!

Also, I added the pulseaudio option (on by default) to the moonlight port, which makes the moonshine experience much more interesting.

When everybody’s talking about Moonlight 2.0 Preview, we’re finally getting somewhere with 1.0 :-)

FreeBSD(ish) blogs get some TLC

Quick summary of the changes:

  • WordPress MU updated to 2.7.1

  • Automatic upgrade is fixed now, so hopefully I’ll be upgrading wpmu and the plugins faster from now on

  • K2 theme updated: if you’re planning on using it, I recommend activating Advanced Navigation in K2 options and also use Widgets (both in Appearance menu) or your sidebar will look funny.

  • New plugins: All in One SEO (search engine optimization), Sociable (share on social websites), WPhone (iphone friendly css), Akismet (anti-spam), Twitter (display twitter feeds)

  • Removed plugins: Iwphone (superseded by WPhone)

  • Plugins considered for removal (shout if you want to keep them): Sol-Digg and Sol-Delicious (superseded by Sociable), Spam Karma 2 (superseded by Akismet)

Also I’m having issues with bundled OpenID delegation support, so I’ll keep the third-party plugin for now. As usual, send me an email if you would like new themes/plugins, or if something got broken.

Moonlight 1.0 coming to a ports tree near you

I was blogging about it the other day, and (for a change) it took longer than I first announced, but here it is!

I just committed my moonlight port (based on moonlight 1.0 release). Now bear in mind this is still a work in progress. I’ve experienced issues with Firefox 3 so support is disabled for now. Also, moonlight requires pulseaudio for sound support which I haven’t tried yet, so the port doesn’t support it. If you happen to have pulseaudio installed, I’d say moonlight will detect it and hopefully it will just work. I’m interested if you have feedback about this.

If you want to start playing around with it, go to http://www.silverlight.net/.

Moonlight on FreeBSD, bling bling, whizzzz

The title may be a bit too exciting, but that’s how you catch people’s attention.

Anyway, yesterday was one of these days where I mumble about an app that Linux guys have and we don’t. This time it was Moonlight. I looked at it a few months ago and I couldn’t get it to work after a few minutes so I just forgot about it. I mean, how often had I visited a website that required Silverlight… Never. Since then… well not so often, I think it happened once actually, to see a trailer for a PS3 game.

If you’re a Mono-enthusiast, you probably rejoyced a few days ago when I merged Mono 2.0.1 (thank the guys at #bsd-sharp, I’m just the messenger). Mono and c-sharp ports are moving faster these days. I know there are quite a few new ports that will enter the CVS repository quite soon (including gnome-do).

Back to Moonlight. This time I decided I would spend more time on it, because of that reason I gave in the first paragraph. There’s been a lot of buzz around it because of the Obama Inauguration. Also Moonlight 1.0 was released a couple days ago. After a couple of hours, I got something working. The port isn’t ready for the public yet, cause there’s still some polishing left to do, but I’ve uploaded a xpi installer for people who want to try it. Here it is (also here, or here, or there). I hope to finish the port and have it in CVS by monday.

blogs.freebsdish.org updated to WordPress-MU 2.7

Apparently I missed the release last week, but it happened finally. I’ll send-pr the update for the port later.

If you encounter any issue, would like a new theme or plugin, leave a comment or drop me an email.