On 4/18/07, Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com> wrote:

Great!  That should be good to visit.  Is there a time of day when
people are more likely to be on?  I may try this evening (I'm in US
mountain time).

        -Thanks, Joe

Ignacio Arqué-Latour wrote:
> Joe
>> Is the project active right now?
> Yes
>> I have high hopes of setting up a working desktop, and I'd be glad to
> contribute in whatever way I can to the effort.
> OK, that is the attitude!
> You are going to find plenty of help from the developers in our irc channel
> (inclusive while you are installing),  please meet us on:
> channel: #gentoo-bsd
> server: irc.freenode.net
>
> I hope to see you soom in the channel ;-)
>
> -- Ignacio
>
> On 4/18/07, Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com> wrote:
>> I am in the process of trying out Gentoo/FreeBSD - I love the idea of
>> being able to use the very cool portage system on BSD!
>>
>> Anyway, I have tried the install twice, the second time doing the
>> "emerge -e system" before the kernel build, but I am getting stuck at
>> the same issue: I get TCP timeouts to some sites.  This is such a
>> bummer, and I am asking if anyone knows a solutuon.  I have seen some
>> other postings to this list that may be the same issue (packet mangling?).
>>
>> Anyway, as an example, I can never FTP to www.astron.com (where the
>> "file" package, among other things, lives).  Even if I use wget or lynx
>> to do an FTP connection, it simply hangs.  I *can* get to this site
>> using Windows, Linux, and regular FreeBSD (non-Gentoo) from the same
>> machine and on the same network, so it has to be something to do with
>> Gentoo/FreeBSD in particular.
>>
>> If I can find a way past this problem, I have high hopes of setting up a
>> working desktop, and I'd be glad to contribute in whatever way I can to
>> the effort.  Is the project active right now?  I have not seen much
>> activity as of late.  I do wish the best for this project, since I think
>> it is valuable!
>>
>>         Thanks!  Joe
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>>
>>
>
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