Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > We haven't packaged any bhyve tools yet. In FreeBSD 10.x it still > > only supports Intel CPUs and I don't have any of those to try it > > on. > > Do you mean amd64 or Intel specifically? It is Intel specifically; VT-x is supported but the SVM sup

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, First off, thank you very much Steven. On 14/10/2014 10:02 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 13/10/14 19:04, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> So, is there currently ANY concern that kFreeBSD won't continue >> for Jessie and/or beyond Jessie? Are th

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi! On 13/10/14 19:04, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > So, is there currently ANY concern that kFreeBSD won't continue for > Jessie and/or beyond Jessie? Are there enough people involved now to > remove the risk for new users coming on board to use kFreeBSD, [...] I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/10/2014 6:35 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 30/09/14 20:03, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: > The remaining concern would be having enough people involved. I'm > certainly not the only active developer; Christoph has been testing and >

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-09 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 01/10/14 02:02, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Are you sure the > best idea is keeping gcc as default compiler for kFreeBSD considering > clang already is the defalut for original FreeBSD? A compiler is chosen per-package, not per-architecture. We have a lot of flexibility here, perhaps

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-09 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Christoph Egger writes: > christoph | there are several bugs on http://deb.li/3xpVg > christoph | then there's lots of testing that can be done > christoph | upgrades from wheezy; installs of jessie/sid with all kind of > configuration > christoph | there are probably some unreported build f

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-09 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Steven Chamberlain writes: > Have people also been asking in IRC and such? There are still some asking from time to time > I think I should increasingly look for easy bugs and, instead of just > fixing them myself (because I can), I should tag them as 'gift' for > someone else to work on, g

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-02 Thread Ed Maste
On 30 September 2014 16:35, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > We need to communicate better the state of kfreebsd and advancements > since wheezy; we haven't done a 'bits' email in a long time. It is > probably in much better state than most people realise. I'd love see a kFreeBSD submission in the

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-01 Thread Jeff Epler
I'm not an official member of the Debian project (DD or DM), but as Steven Chamberlain notes I've contributed a few patches for Debian kFreeBSD, some of which have actually managed to make it into packages. (I have some contributed patches for gdb and valgrind that as far as I know are just sittin

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-01 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Steven Chamberlain writes: >>> Suspend-to-RAM (S3) works *mostly*, though I'd need to script some >>> things like: lock the desktop first, log me out of XMPP, stop sound >>> server and restart it afterward. >> >> Oh it does? never got that working on the x220, maybe I should try >> harder.

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-01 Thread Christoph Egger
Steven Chamberlain writes: > On 30/09/14 21:48, Christoph Egger wrote: >> There's some thing with mesa complaining about my graphics card not >> supported before linux 3.4 [0] but then > > IIRC it broke in between two kfreebsd 10.1 snapshots? You may want to > build the latest package from SVN wh

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-01 Thread Christoph Egger
Steven Chamberlain writes: > On 22:48, Christoph Egger wrote: >> vlc also seems to randomly die > > Try moving this file out of the way - seems to work for me: > /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/misc/libxdg_screensaver_plugin.so I can confirm this works! Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-09-30 Thread brunomaximom
Em 2014-09-30 17:35, Steven Chamberlain escreveu: On 30/09/14 20:03, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: I see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMTE and I am concerned with kFreeBSD too. Ah, I wondered when they would pick up the story! You should probably read the releas

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-09-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 22:48, Christoph Egger wrote: > vlc also seems to randomly die Try moving this file out of the way - seems to work for me: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/misc/libxdg_screensaver_plugin.so It always seems to happen 30-40 seconds in. ktrace showed the screensaver inhibitor running around that time. If x

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-09-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi! On 30/09/14 21:54, Christoph Egger wrote: > Steven, do you have a bigger-picture on current things that would be > good to have fixed? Probably dozens of small nits that might cause something to not work right out-of-the box. I probably overlook such things all the time because to me they ar

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-09-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 30/09/14 21:48, Christoph Egger wrote: > There's some thing with mesa complaining about my graphics card not > supported before linux 3.4 [0] but then IIRC it broke in between two kfreebsd 10.1 snapshots? You may want to build the latest package from SVN which is much more recent (BETA 3). Oth

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-09-30 Thread Christoph Egger
Ahoi! Steven, do you have a bigger-picture on current things that would be good to have fixed? Seems the release team announcments got us some manpower for a while with several people asking where to help Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-09-30 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Steven Chamberlain writes: > For example, I ran it exclusively this past week on my desktop instead > of GNU/Linux as usual, and was able to still do my usual day-to-day > work. Although only need a modern web browser, the XFCE terminal, an > email client (I managed fine with Mutt) and an XM

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-09-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 30/09/14 20:03, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: > I see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMTE and I > am concerned with kFreeBSD too. Ah, I wondered when they would pick up the story! You should probably read the release team mails and log of the IRC meeting. I think

kFreeBSD future

2014-09-30 Thread brunomaximom
Hi, I see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMTE and I am concerned with kFreeBSD too. Then I thought: why not make an OS like Illumian was...but with FreeBSD? ie, why not make a FreeBSD with Debian technologies? FreeBSD with APT+DPKG+Aptitude packages instead pkgng? -- T

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-10-02 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Aurelien Jarno a écrit : Petr Salinger a écrit : - status mail to debian-devel-announce === However if you have some ideas, we can prepare a mail. Well, "Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters" might contain something like bellow. Petr

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-10-02 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Aurelien Jarno wrote: Petr Salinger wrote: Could be possible to upload xulrunner, kdebase and xorg-server into unreleased ? Done for xulrunner In progress for xorg-server The xorg-server.diff on alioth have been for 1.1.1-7, for 1.1.1-9 is needed a different, just committed. For kdebase, I

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-10-02 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Petr Salinger wrote: Could be possible to upload xulrunner, kdebase and xorg-server into unreleased ? Done for xulrunner In progress for xorg-server The xorg-server.diff on alioth have been for 1.1.1-7, for 1.1.1-9 is needed a different, just committed. For kdebase, I have just discovered th

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-10-02 Thread Petr Salinger
Could be possible to upload xulrunner, kdebase and xorg-server into unreleased ? Done for xulrunner In progress for xorg-server The xorg-server.diff on alioth have been for 1.1.1-7, for 1.1.1-9 is needed a different, just committed. For kdebase, I have just discovered that g++ is totally brok

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-10-01 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Petr Salinger a écrit : - status mail to debian-devel-announce === However if you have some ideas, we can prepare a mail. Well, "Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters" might contain something like bellow. Petr **

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-09-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 20:45:45 +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: > > For libxul-dev, http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/patches/nsprpub.diff > > is a good stard. > > xulrunner.diff is now available on alioth. > BTW, how is http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/ synced vith web subdir in > subversion ? It

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-09-25 Thread Petr Salinger
- status mail to debian-devel-announce === However if you have some ideas, we can prepare a mail. Well, "Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters" might contain something like bellow. Petr ***

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-09-04 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Petr Salinger a écrit : - kfreebsd-i386 & etch === Release or not to release ? Well I think we are too far for something releasable IMHO, it would be good to produce some snapshot for evaluation or first try. All packages from such snapshot should be installable

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-09-01 Thread Petr Salinger
I would like to slightly discuss future of GNU/kFreeBSD. - FreeBSD 6.x based May I adapt kfreebsd-kernel-headers to use kfreebsd-source-6.1 ? If it is still possible to use 5.4 kernels then, that looks ok to me. In SVN there is set of updated packages. They work for me

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-08-25 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Petr Salinger a écrit : Hi all, especially Aurelien and Robert. I would like to slightly discuss future of GNU/kFreeBSD. - FreeBSD 6.x based * kfreebsd-kernel-headers * freebsd-libs * freebsd-utils * ... GNU/kFreeBSD have to switch FreeBSD base to newer version so

Re: kfreebsd future

2006-08-24 Thread Robin Elfrink
Petr Salinger wrote: > kfreebsd-amd64 have only 6.x kernels, half of popcon registered users > already uses 6.x kernels on kfreebsd-i386. Oh sorry, I'll re-run popcon immediately :) I'm in favor of using 6.1 default; we use 6.1 default on our FreeBSD machines now as well. Robin -- To UNSUBS

kfreebsd future

2006-08-24 Thread Petr Salinger
Hi all, especially Aurelien and Robert. I would like to slightly discuss future of GNU/kFreeBSD. - FreeBSD 6.x based * kfreebsd-kernel-headers * freebsd-libs * freebsd-utils * ... GNU/kFreeBSD have to switch FreeBSD base to newer version some day. From my POV, it