11-08-2005
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i am installing FREEBSD and I would like to know which hardware specific network card that works and help with this would be great I am very new to this (UNIX) (1 Reply)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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4. BSD
so, i have a video card SIS s315 AGP and i can't cofigure X Free on free BSD to run X window.
Anybody can help me solve this problem?? (2 Replies)
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5. BSD
Can anyone help me ?
I have installed Free BSD several times and I can't get the X window to work . I have installed the ports Gnome and others but for some reason when I type start x doesn't work.
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6. BSD
Now, I had installed free bsd at my office. Unfortunitely, Email server have been using Local PoP3 and SMTP to our ISP with outlook. but my unix firewall sever ( free bsd ) didn't allow these port ( 110 & 25 ).
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7. BSD
Hello friends. I am new to Unix although i am very flexible to any programming language. i was a window user. Now, no more. I have decided myself to switch to unix.
Here is my problem:
I burned the free BSD into my new RW CD's. I inserted the bootable manager first then, it was scanning and... (5 Replies)
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8. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions
HI ALL,
I need to install linux on already existing windows vista OS.
I tried to install linux,am getting error while creating patitions,
i)selected manula patition with grude option..
after that when i m selecting free space to create mount points,
its giving error
"could not allocate... (2 Replies)
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9. BSD
Hi,
I am trying to install Free BSD release 8.0 on my Dell XPS Studio laptop along with already existing Windows partition. (150GB for Win Vista, 30GB for win backup and 130 GB for Free BSD). To do trial I first installed it on Sun virtual Box in Windows where it installed without any complaints.... (2 Replies)
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10. Solaris
Hi there,
I am new to this operating system, so would like to ask for directions on how to go about doing Solaris 10 dual boot with freeBSD on a virtual machine (virtualbox).
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
getosreldate
GETOSRELDATE(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETOSRELDATE(3)
NAME
getosreldate -- get the value of __FreeBSD_version
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
getosreldate(void);
DESCRIPTION
The getosreldate() function returns an integer showing the version of the currently running FreeBSD kernel. Definitions of the values can be
found in The Porter's Handbook which is usually installed at /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, getosreldate() returns the value requested; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is
set to indicate the error.
ENVIRONMENT
OSVERSION If the environment variable OSVERSION is set, it will override the getosreldate() return value.
EXAMPLES
An example can be found in /usr/share/examples/FreeBSD_version.
ERRORS
The getosreldate() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library function sysctl(3).
SEE ALSO
The Porter's Handbook, /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/.
HISTORY
The getosreldate() function appeared in FreeBSD 2.0.
BSD
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