From: varialus Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:12:41 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Personal Page: Improved Hammer and DragonFly description. Made other minor improvements. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/c73a5f26521f82bb2a1b0af7824327806ff8dc00 Personal Page: Improved Hammer and DragonFly description. Made other minor improvements. --- diff --git a/varialus/index.mdwn b/varialus/index.mdwn index 8b8ad8c3..4cbdddab 100644 --- a/varialus/index.mdwn +++ b/varialus/index.mdwn @@ -1,14 +1,18 @@ # et # Anisoptera *The following is an unpaid personal wiki page. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the DragonFly BSD mascot nor its management.* -### Various Tidbits -* **Hammer** is hands down the best file system currently in existence. **DragonFly BSD** is an awesome operating system, but it's a bit rough around the edges for everyday use. I would like DragonFly to be easier to use so that my everyday desktop environment can use Hammer. +### Tidbits +* **Hammer** is hands down the best file system currently in existence. It has block level deduplication, it is supported out of the box by operating system with great underpinnings, and it runs great on regular hardware. +* **DragonFly BSD** is an awesome operating system for many reasons other than that it's the only OS with Hammer, but Hammer is why I'm making the switch. DragonFly's default GUI configuration is a bit rough around the edges for everyday use. But it's nothing that a little ironing can't fix. * **[Dissonance](https://bitbucket.org/varialus/dissonance)** is my fork of Apache Harmony, which is a clean room implementation of Java with a permissive license. Apache gave up because they couldn't license the Java compatibility testing framework. If Oracle isn't going to provide the compatibility testing framework, then the community should write its own compatibility framework that's better than the official one. This would cause dissonance between Oracle and the community, but that's no reason to not pursue it. I'd like to get Dissonance running on DragonFly. * **[Jython](http://www.jython.org/)** is Python written in Java. It's cool. But it's not installed in DragonFly by default. * **ee** is roughly equivalent to **nano**. They are both easy to use command line text editors. The exit option will ask you whether you want to save and you can get to it by pressing Ctrl-[ and selecting 'a) leave editor'. It would be cool if there was a shortcut to ee named nano. * **pkgin** is roughly equivalent to **apt-get**. They are both fairly straightforward command line package management utilities. It would be cool if there was a shortcut to pkgin named apt-get. -### Various Issues +### Reminders +* If NetworkManager Applet is installed, use it to override an unreliable DNS server rather than editing /etc/resolv.conf directly. Observed in NetworkManager 0.8.1 on Debian Squeeze. + +### Issues * Varialus should ensure that these issues are properly logged. Yes, I know that they should be properly logged and I intend to eventually get them all logged. In the mean time hopefully my notes will help someone still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions. * The installer should offer the Xfce desktop environment as a supported option. Observed in DragonFly 3.0.2. * The installer should set the keyboard layout before any typing is required. Observed in DragonFly 3.0.2. @@ -24,7 +28,7 @@ * The default shell provided by the installer should list valid auto completion options after typing a partial command and then pressing tab two or more times. Observed in DragonFly 3.0.2. * ->Excepting the bullet point, this syntax should center text in this wiki.<- Observed on 8/25/2012. -### Various Workarounds +### Workarounds **Enable the Caps Lock Key within the GUI** Edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. @@ -39,6 +43,8 @@ Delete the ctrl:nocaps XkbOptions option from the InputDevice section with the i #Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" EndSection +Observed in DragonFly BSD 3.0.2. + **Install Non-GUI on 3TB+ Hard Drive** *WARNING:* This workaround includes instructions which will delete all data from a hard drive.