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Good news: DesktopBSD 1.7 coming soon

A first preview version of desktopBSD 1.7 is available in official website. this snapshot version only support i386 machine. it doesn’t support am64 machine. A blog post of Official introduction says DesktopBSD based on the FreeBSD 7.0R (version 1.6 is base on the FreeBSd 6.3RC). and new version actiated some useful addons. But this blog post also warning there will be certainly some problems!

A iso image file has been hosted in ftp server. you can click link of “DesktopBSD Weekly Snapshots”section in this page. I am currently downloading this image file. After that, I will try snapshot and geting screenshot.

Other Desktop distribution PC-BSD (currently in version 1.5, also based in Freebsd 6.3) has no any plan about new version that based in new Freebsd7.

[Part Two]Building a Server with DesktopBSD 1.6(Database Server)

There are a whole lot of Database platform in the IT world. For instance , Oracle, Firebird, Sybase etc. I only choose two of them in this tutorial, they are mysql and postgresql. Mysql is a open source project. It is a most popular database component in the personal hosting service. It can work very well with PHP together. And, postgresql is also a open source project base on the BSD license. It’s an object-relational database system. compare with mysql. postgresql is more powerful feature like Views, Triggers, and Unions. on the other hand, the speed of mysql is faster than postgresql.

The ports system also will be used in building database. make sure your ports system has been update. and versions of mysql and postgresql need be latest.

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phun - make physics study like game.

If you just watch the following video without my introduction. Probably you will think this is a 2D game or new interesting paint. But, in fact. It is a software of 2D physics sandbox.

Video

Official introduction is:
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[Part One]Building a Server with DesktopBSD 1.6(introduction)

Why is DesktopBSD neither freeBSD or Linux. Firstly, DesktopBSD 1.6 is base on Freebsd 6.3. It is distribution ofFreeBSD. And Linux is same pretty good, but BSD is more better in old machine such as PIII cpu, 128M memory, Linux maybe can run in these kind of computers, but Linux can’t run other applications like postgresql.

And, DesktopBSD have pretty good graphical interface environment with KDE. that should save time of configuration of GUI. DesktopBSD also uses the ports system. we can easily install any software.

I plan to build a server support following service:

1. Databases service such as MySQL, PostgreSQL.
2. PHP development environment with Apache2
3. Files share service like NFS and Samba.
4. JSP/Java development environment with Tomcat6
5. FTP server
6. DNS and Mail server.

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Unix Time Stamp Convert

This is a nice program for convert unix time stamp and system time to each other. the program just use command line without GUI. User can easy convert 10 time stamps to system time, and just one system time to unix time stamp.


open your command line interface(in MSwindows open “RUN..” input “cmd”)
command utsconv like:

utsconv [OPTION -t, /t, -u, /u, -h, /h, …..] [TimeStamp/SystemTime]

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Making a FreeBSD DVD in Windows System

There are only CD ISO image in the FreeBSD official website. installation FreeBSD by 2 or 3 CD is inconvenient. we need replace CD one by one. so a DVD installation disc will save a lot of times and work.

The following Tools will be used in the work of creating DVD ISO image: WinRAR, CD ISO 1 to 3 of Freebsd(I use Freebsd6.3), UltraISO (winISO also can work in this project, but I like UltraISO) and emeditor(or any editor who support unix text format). Moreover if you want burn DVD-ROM, your need software of burning and DVD-RW driver and DVD-R or DVD-RW disc.

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Dumpling of Chinese New Year

7th Feb is Chinese New Year of 2008. Dumpling is absolutely necessarily food in this day. we just prepare three kind of Dumpling: beef with carotene, pork with celery and see food. each one was make by hand. That’s not professional work I think. but, they also are flavorful.

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Game: portal, do you understand?

Portal, this is very interesting game. a simple dome video following.

I hope you can understand how to play it. I think playing game is easier than thinking this game. anyway, there are a simple flash version Portal game. everybody can play it without pay.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/404612