PC-BSD starts to distribute rolling release based on FreeBSD 9.2

PC-BSD starts to distribute rolling release "PC-BSD 9.2 beta".

Rolling-Release and 9.2-BETA1 Released

This is based on FreeBSD 9.2 beta. and its ISOs and images are available in here.

ISOs and images for PC-BSD's rolling release have been re-deployed

ISOs and images for PC-BSD's rolling release have been re-deployed in here.

ISOs and images for PC-BSD's rolling release have been erased.

All packages and binaries for PC-BSD have been switched from mirrors sites to Contents Delivery Network (e.g. BitTorrent).
PC-BSD Now Uses a CDN

But, ISOs and images for PC-BSD's rolling release have also been erased, so that the site http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/9.1-RELEASE/ is now "404 - Not Found".

The information above is now obsoleted. Please check current information:
phosphorescence: ISOs and images for PC-BSD's rolling release have been re-deployed

pkgng on PC-BSD rolling release is not stable.

The package management tool of PC-BSD rolling release is pkg(8)(a.k.a. pkgng). But, IMHO, this is not stable yet.

• XScreensaver for pkgng is 5.12, but default version of PC-BSD rolling release is 5.20. When executing pkg upgrade, Xscreensaver and its releated GUI libraries are degraded.
• As written in this manual, when accepting to use pkgng, it is NOT reversible to any existing package management tools.

So I decide not to use pkgng for a while, until FreeBSD/PC-BSD 10.0 will be released.

(/etc/make.conf)

WITHOUT_PKGNG=yes

Here comes PC-BSD rolling release!

In last week, PC-BSD rolling release ISOs had been avialable!

Official PC-BSD Blog » First Rolling Release ISOs Available

http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/9.1-RELEASE/

Access to web application on *BSD on VirtualBox from HostOS

If you want to access web application on *BSD on VirtualBox from host-OS:

1. In VirtualBox settings, enable "Host Only Adapter"
2. Install *BSD as guest-OS, and specify IP address with typing ifconfig em1
3. launch web application with larger port number, because *BSD has its firewall PF, and /etc/pf.conf allows that larger port number passes "any to any" as default.
   

pass in quick on em1 proto {tcp,udp} from any to any port 49152:65535 keep state

For example, in guest-OS:

$ ifconfig em1
em1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
  options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
  ether 08:00:27:e0:cd:cc
  inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fee0:cdcc%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
  inet 192.168.56.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.56.255
  nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
  media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
  status: active
$ rails s -p 59049
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 3.2.11 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:59049
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2013-01-18 20:24:36] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2013-01-18 20:24:36] INFO  ruby 1.9.3 (2012-11-10) [amd64-freebsd9]
[2013-01-18 20:24:36] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=53329 port=59049

For example, in host-OS:

PC-BSD 9.1 is finally released.

A few days ago, PC-BSD 9.1 is finally released.

• PC-BSD 9.1 Now Available
• iXsystems Announces Release of PC-BSD 9.1 Isotope Edition

But its KDE ports packages are little confused about directory and dependency. So that I change desktop environment to LXDE since this release.

FreeBSD project has announced the security incident.

FreeBSD project has announced the security incident. And PC-BSD project also announces too.

• FreeBSD.org intrusion announced November 17th 2012
• FreeBSD Security Incident

AsiaBSDCon 2013 starts "Call for paper"

AsiaBSDCon 2013 starts "Call for paper".

This will be held in 14-17 March, 2013.

PC-BSD 9.1 RC2 is released

In yesterday, PC-BSD 9.2 RC1 is released. I cannot wait the final.

PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 is released

Today, PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 is released. I will try it in next week.

Both FreeBSD 9.1 beta1 and PC-BSD 9.1 beta1 have been released

5 days ago, FreeBSD 9.1 beta 1 has been released. Ant then, 2 days ago, PC-BSD 9.1 beta 1 has also been released. Now I'm trying PC-BSD 9.1 beta.

Installing F# 2.0 on FreeBSD

(continued from phosphorescence: Installing Mono on FreeBSD)

FreeBSD ports also have F#, but, this is not version 2.0, so that we should install F# 2.0 from source via Github.

$ git clone http://github.com/fsharp/fsharp.git
$ cd fsharp
$ autoreconf
$ ./configure
$ gmake
$ sudo gmake install

Let's check F# REPL.

$ fsharpi

Microsoft (R) F# 2.0 Interactive build (private)
Copyright (c) 2002-2011 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

For help type #help;;

> 

Installing Mono on FreeBSD

At this time(writing this article), FreeBSD ports provides Mono 2.11. Let's install

# cd /usr/ports/lang/mono
# make install clean

It takes long time. Then let's check C# REPL.

$ csharp
Mono C# Shell, type "help;" for help

Enter statements below.
csharp> 

That's all. But, unfortunatelly, Mono for POSIX does not contain F#...

If you fail upgrading KDE with FreeBSD ports from 4.7 to 4.8

If you fail upgrading KDE from 4.7 to 4.8 on FreeBSD ports, let's try these two operations.

Rebuild all ports referencing PNG

# cd /usr/ports
# portupgrade -fr graphics/png
# portupgrade

It takes long long hours.

Rebuild kalgebra

# cd /usr/ports
# pkg_deinstall kalgebra-4.7.X kde-baseapps-4.7.X
# pkgdb -F

It takes long hours. And check more details in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

AsiaBSDCon 2012

3 weeks ago, AsiaBSDCon 2012 was held.

大きな地図で見る
I attend these 4 workshops.

Timetables of AsiaBSDCon 2012 are revealed

AsiaBSDCon 2012 are revealed now.

• Timetable in English
• Timetable in Japanese

The most interest session for me is about PC-BSD.

T2B: Maintaining your own PBI package repository

FreeBSD is the easiest way to use Rails3 with nginx

To use ports on FreeBSD is the easiest way to use Rails3 with nginx.

(1) rubygem-rails port has configuration for rubygem-passenger

(2) rubygem-passenger port has configuration for nginx

(3) nginx port has configuration for many plug-ins.

BTW, rubygem-activerecord port has configuration for PostgreSQL.

So that you can choose BSD-License Friendly products (Ruby 1.9.3, nginx and PostgreSQL) to using Rails3.

Install OpneJDK7 on FreeBSD

FreeBSD deals many kind of JDKs. But, at the time of writing this article, OpenJDK7 is the only one that are ready for Java7. So that I introduce the way to install OpneJDK7 on FreeBSD.

Edit /etc/make.conf for OpenJDK7

Add these definitions to /etc/make.conf:

JAVA_VENDOR=openjdk
JAVA_VERSION=1.7
BOOTSTRAPJDKDIR=/usr/local/openjdk7
JAVA_PREFERRED_PORTS=JAVA_PORT_NATIVE_OPENJDK_JDK_1_7

Install via packages (mandatory)

# pkg_add -r openjdk7

That's all. Let's check the output of java -version command.

Install via ports (option)

If we want to install openjdk7 via ports, however, we must prepare for another JDK to be installed. In this article, I suggest to install openjdk7 via packages(above) at first, then install openjdk7 via ports.

# pkg_add -r openjdk7
# cd /usr/ports/java/openjdk7
# make install clean
# pkgdb -F

Let's check again java -version command.

Rebuild Korundum and QtRuby to use Ruby 1.9

In the previous article, I introduce thee way to rebuild portupgrade to use Ruby 1.9 on PC-BSD. By the way, on PC-BSD, there are two more libraries that depend on ruby 1.8 - Korundum and QtRuby. So that I introduce the way to rebuild these to use Ruby 1.9.