Hi, Petr and other bsd people. On Aug 26 2009, Petr Salinger wrote: > >So, in light of this, I would like to know what would be a good starting > >point for working with the kfreebsd-amd64 port of Debian (and, depending > >on the circumstances, I may even adopt it as my main OS). > > Start with this http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
That's very nice. I was looking for an opportunity to finally see what all this virtualization thing with qemu was all about. Previously, I had only used "native" virtualization with other computers that had support for the virtualization flags, but the computer where I do most of my work doesn't have those things (I use a Pentium D and it's the fastest desktop to which I have access---and I won't be able to update to anything newer in the near future). Testing kFreeBSD was an excellent excuse for playing with qemu. :-) The next step will be to use kqemu to see if things can be made a little bit faster (not really sure if the patch present in the archives apply on top of Linus' git tree). > links "Install guide" and "QEMU install tutorial". > Use the old hacked FreeBSD installer, the kernel in the latest > http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/install-cd/ > should be fine also for kfreebsd-i386. Just do not upgrade it for now > ... Well, I just got the disc image from 20090117 and I am proceeding to a dist-upgrade right now (I just selected the -686 kernel and the -i686 support for libc). Hummm, honestly, I have never wished that the packages actually had more shared data (say, more things arch: all). Anyway, just so that it becomes documented for future installers, I had some problems with dpkg spitting errors because tar version 1.22 was using utime and I got the message that utime was a "function not implemented"). I could not do anything else other than unpacking back tar 1.20, so that I could continue installing the system. Then, after that, I could proceed with a dist-upgrade (I'm doing that right now). > >Are there any live CDs? Is unstable too unstable for regular use? > Currently not, the GING is really outdated. I think that creating one would be a very, very good point so that we could see further testing/adoption of kFreeBSD. I will investigate how we could implement one. Not only that, but working with a non-mainstream architecture is fun. :-) > >Is unstable too unstable for regular use? > Not so much, we also started to populate into testing. Right. I see that we have bsd with a good amount of packages already built (and I would be willing to donate some time for a buildd). > >I will start compiling my own packages with the BSD port, just to see > >which results I get > > According to links from > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbr...@ime.usp.br > it looks like only avr-evtd needs your attention. Right. This is a Linux specific package (actually a hardware dependent package), but since it only uses a connection to the serial port, "cleaning" the sources would be a very good thing. This is, BTW, the reason that I left it as arch: any, after all (so that I could see were things would break). Of course, I'm participating of popcon and I'm installing the bsdstats script, to make this platform a little bit more popular. :-) Thank you very much, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
