Re: GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System "

2013-04-10 Thread Jonathan Anderson
I might try to set it up and see a size comparision. The last I heard, LTO on the kernel required something like 16 GB of RAM and produced a not-quite-working image. Jon -- Jonathan Anderson Research Associate Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge jonathan.ander...@cl.cam.

Re: lib for working with graphs

2012-11-28 Thread Jonathan Anderson
instance, igraph has a core C library to do the heavy lifting, but I'd never want to use it directly when exploring data sets because the Python wrapper API is so very convenient (and I can pop the resulting data into matplotlib). Jon -- Jonathan Anderson jonat...@freeb

Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Jonathan Anderson
I do like the idea (Garrett's, maybe?) of providing such a tool, leaving it off by default, making it very easy to turn on ("if you run this command, the shell will be friendlier to you") and letting the PC-BSD folks turn it on by default for their users. Jon -- Jonathan Anderson jona

Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Jonathan Anderson
s kind of thing makes the system *very* discoverable for non-experts (even non-experts wrt a particular package). You don't need to check mailing lists or freshports or whatnot, you can just try stuff out, and when it doesn't work, t

Re: Capsicum project: Ideas needed

2011-07-08 Thread Jonathan Anderson
his binary, constrained by policy X.sb"). I think that the capsh/Plash approach is a more natural fit for capabilities (policy files fit nicely with MAC), and indeed, a more natural tool for the job we're trying to do here. Perhaps 'sudo --sandbox command infile:r outfile:rw' co