Re: Star & FreeBSD

Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Last night, I did convert star from a GPL tool into a CDDL > tool. This now makes star compliant with the BSD philosophy. > > Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD? As others have noted, CDDL != BSD licence and the base system a

Re: Flash plugin

Quoting Justin Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was hopeful for using the Flash plugin with FireFox in FreeBSD when I > noticed that there was a port for it. However, the plugin seems to be > pretty dated, though I can't tell exactly what version of the player it > is. I think you're looking at th

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

Robert Watson wrote: >>[pcm in GENERIC] > Actually, pcm was in GENERIC for a while, but was removed because it > caused hangs on boot with a common line of Dell Latitude notebooks at the > time. The problem is likely now fixed, and I'd certainly not object to it > being in GENERIC as long as there

Copyrights (was: Where is FreeBSD going?)

Narvi wrote: > > We can all be glad that it hasn't mattered and might never matter that > > the FreeBSD IP situation is so shabby, I suppose because it sends the > > message that it's all essentially a Gentlemen's Agreement, with only a > > few violators who are more-or-less tolerated. > > > > It

Re: Who's the troll?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [is Bill Huey the troll?] > > Does anybody seriously believe this? Mark Murray, a FreeBSD core team member, publicly said this on an archived and searchable mailing list. That's my probl

Who's the troll? (was: Where is FreeBSD going?)

Paul Robinson wrote: > All I'm suggesting (and no, I'm not the troll, but I'd thank him, > whoever he is), I would not thank the troll -- anyone with legitimate concerns can air them under their own names (like you did), otherwise they don't deserve to be taken seriously. That said, I have a big

The Trolls identity (was: Re: matthew dillon)

(I assume I'm replying to the "real" PHK here) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We know that the lamer behind the Troll is "Bill Huey" aka "billh". Is there any evidence for it? If so, you should share it and if not, you shouldn't make such accusations.

Re: sendmail: how to get the named of FreeBSD4.7 standards compliant ?

Roman Neuhauser wrote: > No, that's not the reason. I just don't like getting cc's. That's easily fixed: I recommend /usr/ports/mail/procmail. You can't expect people on a mailing list to tailor their MUA configuration to suit your choices. It's up to you to set up your own MUA and filters to c

Re: anyone working on a new file system metaphor?

Kieren MacMillan wrote: > If anyone has seen Scopeware (), you'll know > the kind of thing I'm thinking of: a universal indexing system where > *any* file of *any* type in *any* location would be cross-referenced > (using metadata as well as content where possible) in one

Re: Synaptics touchpad extendid support.

> * Make moused map up/down into buttons 4/5: > > moused -m 4=2 -m 5=4 -p /dev/psm0 -t auto > > * Make X do the rest. From XF86Config (for XFree 4.2): > >Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "Auto" >

Re: Synaptics touchpad extendid support.

Marcin Dalecki wrote: > >>Here is my first cut at support for the Synaptics touchpads, > >2. The pad has 4 buttons; left and right work as before. In between, > >there are a small up and down button. Now the up button acts as the > >middle button (button 3?) -- ie I can paste with it. The dow

Re: Synaptics touchpad extendid support.

Marcin Dalecki wrote: > Here is my first cut at support for the Synaptics touchpads, which are > commonly used on notebooks. Contrary to the default "Windows > installation mode" those devices come up at boot, this is enabling > full support for all buttons present on the device and works nicely >

Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2

Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Bogdan TARU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 10 Apr 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > In my humble opinion, Solaris (and every other *nix) is broken in > > > this > > > respect, and *BSD is correct. > > Except for OpenBDS. No NetBDS machine available, maybe some

Re: Port: Intel Fortran (and C++?) compilers

David O'Brien said on Feb 1, 2002 at 09:59:56: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:21:37PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > 3. The compiler by itself compiles, but does not link; it complains > > >about lots of undefined symbols. To get around this, I use the linux > > >ld, which is not part of l

Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5

> > > > Does 4.5 also leave write-caching on by default? If so, I think > > > > that's a terrible mistake. Would I be correct in assuming it's > > > > way to late to get this reconsidered? > > > > > > Yes, write-cache is enabled by default on 4.5 (as it was on 4.4). > > > > > > The debate on thi

Re: Port: Intel Fortran (and C++?) compilers

Dan Nelson said on Jan 24, 2002 at 13:21:37: > > #! /bin/sh > if [ -z "${IA32ROOT}" ] ; then > . /compat/linux/usr/local/intel/compiler50/ia32/bin/iccvars.sh > fi > exec /compat/linux/usr/local/intel/compiler50/ia32/bin/icc "$@" OK, makes sense... I was just putting the contents of iccvars.

Port: Intel Fortran (and C++?) compilers

I have the Intel Fortran compiler[1] for Linux (Red Hat 7.1) working on my FreeBSD box, and (barring as-yet-unseen glitches) would like to submit a port by the weekend or so. I'd like some advice on how to proceed with the following issues. 0. I used linux_base-7 because I had it installed alre

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

Terry Lambert said on Jul 10, 2001 at 09:56:58: > > Also, you should be aware that in commercial deployment, > having a compiler on board the system is often considered > a bad thing, as it permits entre to exploiters bringing > their own programs onto the system. I've seen people disable compil

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

Wes Peters said on Jun 23, 2001 at 23:28:42: > > Plenty of GNU stuff there, though it doesn't say so explicitly. > > Of course, they say it's all meant only for "legacy Unix" stuff. > > Can you substantiate your claim there is "plenty of GNU stuff" in > Interix, or are you just talking out your a

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

Koster, K.J. said on Jun 21, 2001 at 10:24:24: > Perhaps Lee can consider tracking down how much GLP lisenced software is > used in companies in close proximity to Microsoft. While Microsoft is not > going to be caught dead using it, http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/interixinc.asp Pl