Bsd Now

On today's show we have an interview with Joe Marcus Clark, one of the original portmgr members in FreeBSD, and one of the key GNOME porters. Keeping along with that topic, we have a FreeBSD ports tutorial for you as well. The latest news and answers to your BSD questions, right here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer (http://multixden.blogspot.com/2014/02/tailoring-openbsd-for-old-strange.html) The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT (http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=233), which comes with a pop-out mouse, black and white display, 32MB of RAM and a 133MHz CPU Obviously he had to install some kind of BSD on it! This post goes through all his efforts of trimming down OpenBSD to work on such a limited device He goes through the trial and error of "compile, break it, rebuild, try again" After cutting a lot out from the kernel, saving a precious megabyte here and there, he eventually gets it working *** pkg