Re: Doubts

From: Scott Corey (scott_at_bsdprophet.org)
Date: 05/24/03

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    Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 22:57:06 -0500
To: Thiago Silva Conceição <f2b@atribuna.com.br>

    Thiago Silva Conceição wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I've installed FreeBSD here, I have come from Linux so I am still
    > adaptating. I have some doubts:
    >
    > - How often the ports collection get updated? Is it whenever a new
    > release is out or constantly?
    Constantly
    >
    > - How do I do to update all the applications I have installed? I did the
    > "make world" thing here but It seems it doesn't update things like
    > gnome, XFree, kde and so on, or maybe I'm wrong. Something like 'apt-get
    > upgrade' from Debian Linux.
    If you have installed the ports , then try
    /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, also look into
    /usr/ports/net/cvsup and read
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

    >
    > - Is it possible to configure the console while in text mode to display
    > characters from other languages? I tried to configure the console font
    > and language through sysinstall but It didn't worked. My home language
    > is brazilian portuguese.

    Yes, look at
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html

    >
    > - There is an annoying thing on emacs. The backspace button doesn't work
    > as it usually do on other systems (erasing the last typed character).
    > How do I change this?

    I don't do emacs, so I can't help you there.
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Thiago

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