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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