Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] DragonFlyBSD perfomance improvements and others

2011-11-11 Thread Althaf
What are your views on using DF as a desktop? Does it have a slackware like ecosystem? ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #ilugk

[ILUG-Cochin.org] need help in serial port pgm...

2011-11-11 Thread shibin k reeny
hai, i was writing a serial port program and i dont know what went wrong... #include #include #include #include #include #include #define BAUDRATE B9600 main() { int fd,c, res,STOP; struct termios oldtio,newtio; char buf[255]; fd = open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY ); if (fd <0) {perro

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] DragonFlyBSD perfomance improvements and others

2011-11-11 Thread Basil Kurian
@altaf What are your views on using *Slackware* as a desktop? Does it have a * * like ecosystem ? ;) he he :D Its all about the level of abstraction you prefer :) On 11 November 2011 19:28, Althaf wrote: > What are your views on using DF as a desktop? Does it have a slackware > like ecosy

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] DragonFlyBSD perfomance improvements and others

2011-11-11 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Althaf wrote: > What are your views on using DF as a desktop? Does it have a slackware like > ecosystem? > Could you please clarify what you mean by eco system? Thanks --Siju ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] DragonFlyBSD perfomance improvements and others

2011-11-11 Thread unni krishnan
I dont know about DFBSD. I was using FreeBSD as desktop system for around 1 month. It gives the package management system called ports. That is almost equal to abs in arch linux and gentoo portage. Like arch linux, freebsd also provides binary packages. Once you install desktop system like gnome or

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] DragonFlyBSD perfomance improvements and others

2011-11-11 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi On 11/11/11, Althaf wrote: > What are your views on using DF as a desktop? Does it have a slackware like > ecosystem? > Don't bother about x86_64 Dfly for desktop kinda apps (browser with flash), linux ABI etc. Those haven't been ported yet. If you stick to i386, maybe it would do good to in