PC-BSD 9.1 Isotope Edition....

Wonders if PC-BSD 9.1 will also have a "Isotope Edition" with KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and LXDE on DVD5.



Developers too lazy to change wallpaper in 9.1

Changes since the previous snapshot:

FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1
KDE 4.8.4
Support for Warden to create Linux Jails (Debian & Gentoo support included)
Fixed a bug with mouse cursor fonts changing over some tray apps
Correct some bugs with mouse not being detected after display wizard
Add new “TrueOS” server option, alongside FreeBSD Vanilla.
Display detected video resolution / driver on confirmation screen
Add new IPv4 / IPv6 validation to address fields
Fix bugs exporting / importing jails via Warden
Add new Hardware Compatibility Check GUI, which is available during install and via Control Panel
Add new Sound Configuration GUI, which lets user select and test different sound devices
Add NVIDIA legacy drivers for cards older than 8–10 years (32bit only)
Added option to “mount/clone” jail snapshots via the Warden

Highlights for the upcoming 9.1-Release:

FreeBSD 9.1
KDE 4.8.4
New system installer! Greatly simplified for desktop and server installs.
New “PC-BSD Server” installation option. Includes command-line utilities like pbi-manager, warden, metapkgmanager and more.
Support for ZFS mirror / raidz(1,2,3) during installation.
Support for SWAP on ZFS, allowing entire disk ZFS installation.
Support for setting additional ZFS data-set options, such as compression, noexec, etc.
Warden jail management integrated into system. Allows creating jails via GUI, adding packages and other administration.
Support for Warden to create Linux Jails
New “Sound Configuration GUI”
New “Hardware compatibility” GUI
First boot setup wizard allows OEM installs to be easily performed.
New Bluetooth paring tray / GUI utilities.
New AppCafe improvements and preferences
Improvements to wifi utility
Fixed bug causing untranslated strings to show up empty.
Numerous bug-fixes to PC-BSD related utilities
Support for creating PXE boot server for remote desktop and installation.
ZFS beadm support


PC-BSD 9.1 has this pbi sytem that is a front end for FreeBSD Ports, designed with KDE QT4 C++ and has both base and dependencies. It's counterpart to MAC OS X's dmg files. DMG installer is where pbi came from in the first place.

installed Opensuse 12.2 RC2, waiting for 12.2 RTM

I got openSUSE 12.2 at college, and split them up in 200 MB 7z archives for my thumb drive. It comes with KDE 4.8.2, Gnome 3.4.1 XFCE 4.9 and kernel 3.4.6-1. I've only installed 3.3 on my laptop(s).

KDE 4.8 is a little less buggy than KDE 4.7.2 in openSuse 12.1. KDE applications released today include Dolphin with its new display engine, new Kate features and improvements, Gwenview with functional and visual improvements. KSecretService is a new framework for sharing saved passwords and other credentials between a wider range of applications. KDE Telepathy —the new real-time communication and collaboration framework for KDE Workspaces with Speex VoIP for other Linux users. Why not use Google talk instead? Google Talk would get integrated with Google+. There is no "KDE+". Plasma Components offer an efficient, elegant and powerful set of widgets, which integrate well with the underlying platform. Combined with Plasma's visual and data integration components, application development has never been easier, more fun and powerful. Plasma Components automatically adapt to the device they are used on, making it easy to share code between Desktop and mobile and touch-based applications and allowing deployment and usability on a wider range of target devices.

KDE 4.8.2

Unfortunately, OpenSuse 12.2 didn't go with MATE 1.2, an enhancement of Gnome 2 nor did it go with Cinnamon 1.4, enhancement of Gnome 3.x. Gnome 3.4.x new feature is the Network password dialogs, including those for VPN passwords, present in Gnome 2.x. Our built in screen recorder now produces smoother videos while also using less system resources. To use it, simply press Control+Shift+Alt+R using Ogg Theora.

    Gnome 3.4 has improved network panel layout, which now allows you to forget the configuration of individual networks.  A better looking power panel, which includes a redesigned status section. Greatly enhanced Wacom graphics tablet support, including calibration and button mapping, as well as the new ability to configure multiple tablets. Easier navigation thanks to the renaming of some panels and an updated 'All Settings' button. This provides a really nice way to do video calling (Ogg Theora) , and it is fully integrated into GNOME 3. System Monitor has received Control Groups support.

Kernel 3.4 has graphics support for the GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 68xx. Xen Hypervisor to adjust the processor speed or send the CPU into a short-term sleep state when using Linux 3.4 on the Dom0.he MD software RAID code can now resize RAID 10 arrays in such a way that, for example, extra space in component devices can be used after the underlying disks have been exchanged for larger ones.As usual, there are a number of improvements to the drivers and infrastructure for DVB hardware, including support for the KWorld PC150-U ATSC hybrid tuner card, as well as for the AzureWave 6007 and related USB 2.0 DVB-T/C hardware. A new Realtek RTL2831U driver for DVB-T hardware has also been added. The Brcmfmac Broadcom WLAN driver now works with the Bcm43235/6/8 USB chips, while the rt2x00 Ralink driver, starting with 3.4, supports the RT5372 WLAN chipset. The rtl8187 driver, responsible for the Realtek chip with the same name, now provides ad hoc support. OpenSuse 12.2 also provides basic support for ACPI 5.0.The Ext4 code gained a new mechanism for resizing Ext4 filesystems. The new mechanism needs only 3.5 seconds to resize a 20 GB drive to 230 GB. The MD code responsible for software RAIDs gained functions (for example 1, 2) to copy data currently on one storage device to another so that the first can later be removed. This "hot replace" reduces the danger of losing data when changing disks that are part of the RAID, since it avoids the rebuild (which creates a new version of the redundant data on the new data volume) that has previously been necessary for such an exchange. A rebuild is not without its risks, since the data has to be read from the remaining data volumes, which could have developed corrupt areas; in addition, except for a RAID 6, there is no redundancy during a rebuild. The kernel is able to perform a "hot replace" for RAID levels 1, 4, 5, 6, and 10. The DRM/KMS driver for Intel GPUs will enable the very efficient and Intel-specific RC6 graphics power-saving feature by default. The kernel developers have extended the TCP stack of Linux 3.2 to provide "Proportional Rate Reduction" (PRR) support. The Ext4 filesystem now supports big allocation blocks. The technique, known as bigalloc, bundles the 4K blocks used to store data into clusters of up to 1 MB. This reduces administrative overhead when saving large files and should significantly improve performance in some scenarios. With the help of the new CFS bandwidth controller and the control groups (cgroups) infrastructure, it is now possible to cap process group CPU time. One use case of this is to permit cloud operators to ensure that users are not able to consume more CPU resources than they have paid for.

I don't get any FFMPEG decoders or VLC 2.x like Linux Mint 13 which is obviously GPLed. What is wrong with these Linux developers?

SHMUPs IX: Bought Battle Garegga 3: Ibara today

I bought the most expensive Playstation 2 SHMUP available, Ibara. It got a nice score of 9.5 and I can play it in my Modchipped PS2. It was $150 and no region free Xbox 360 port! Shame on Cave for not making this beautiful game region free. Battle Garegga 2 was a the arcade only game Battle Bakraid in 1999.



ans of cult developer Raizing could only lament the end of an era in the year 2000, when the team was folded into sister company 8ing and ceased producing its own games. Some time down the line, though, former rival Cave decided to bring Raizing bigwig Shinobu Yagawa on board for a new shooter, and Ibara (“rose”, “thorn”, or “briar”) was the result of this once-unlikely partnership. As might be expected, in many ways this isn’t really a “Cave game”; it’s best-described as a spiritual sequel to Raizing’s iconic Battle Garegga. Once again the main keys to scoring (and, by extension, survival) are expending your bombs (which you must “build” by collecting shards) on specific score-rich targets, dismantling (and greatly angering) the bosses, and weaving through enemy fire to snatch falling medals. The game’s “rank” level, which bumps up the challenge, tends to increase quickly, and the only way to knock it back down a peg is to die, so you’d better keep racking up those points (and resulting extra lives) if you want to last very long.



What videogames should i buy, taking suggestions.



I pirated this game 14 months ago for modchipped PS2.

Top 10

1 Dodonpachi 3.538

2 Ikaruga 2.692
3 Radiant Silvergun 2.551
4 Gradius V 2.064
5 Battle Garegga 1.833
6 Dodonpachi Daioujou 1.795

7 ESPGaluda 1.667

8 Armed Police Batrider 1.423

8 Mushihimesama 1.423

10 Batsugun / Batsugun Special Version 1.103



41 Ibara / Ibara Black Label 0.372

Free MPEG H encoder / decoder.

I found a MPEG H encoder and Decoder (HEVC/H265 )

VFW version
Current Website

I remember first using its predecessor in 2006. My first encode was Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds in 2006. It dumps to a AVI file.

Cheating Linux installs

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Installing Linux or PC-BSD without any drama of partitioning. 90 MB to save your ass (my audience). I never had this luxury in 2003. All you need to remember is giving it 5 GB of HDD space. Also installs Mac OS X on Windows 7!

https://www.virtualbox.org/