suggested won't affect the choice of installation options,
because the principle of installer's operation - questions and answers -
won't be altered.
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do a misservice by hiding the fact that this
knowledge is strictly necessary on OpenBSD.
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crocode
> updates from the BIOS? And what *does* all that SMM code do? It's
> all completely trustworthy and bug free, I'm sure.
FWIW the network cards' firmware would serve a better place for backdoor -
they interfere with network and do some cryptography the OS relies upon.
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wn vendor also supports signed UEFI).
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:50:53AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> Can you recommend an alternative automounter for network mounts?
I guess fstab + ifstated(8) would do the job even better then amd.
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:54:09PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> I'd really like a solution that didn't involve me having
> to rectify things again and again, but it's better than nothing :)
Undeadly?
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*(p = strrchr(mbp->mb_path, '/')) = '\0';
/* Ignore setstr errors here (arbitrary) */
setstr((vp = local("_", false)), mbp->mb_path,
KSH_RETURN_ERROR);
+ *p = '/';
+ }
shellf("%s\n", substitute(mbp->mb_msg ? mbp->mb_msg : MBMESSAGE, 0));
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amp;
+ (S_ISDIR(stbuf.st_mode) || S_ISREG(stbuf.st_mode))) {
+ if (S_ISDIR(stbuf.st_mode)) {
+ mbp->mb_path = (char *)alloc(strlen(p)+4, APERM);
+ sprintf(mbp->mb_path, "%s/new", p);
+ }
mbp->mb_mtime = stbuf.st_mtime;
- else
+ } else
mbp->mb_mtime = 0;
+
return(mbp);
}
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Mayuresh Kathe said:
> hi, how do mailx users currently handle mime?
They don't. They install mutt, s-nail or whatever.
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feel if Google's IMAP wasn't so brain-damaged and unconformant.)
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based on "sender" and alter "From"
in the message headers when composing.
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Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso said:
> In ~/.mailrc:
>
> set NAIL_EXTRA_RC=~/.file-with-nail-specific-configs
>
> should help you out.
Or just "export NAILRC=~/.nailrc" in ~/.kshrc, ~/.bashrc or wherever you set
your environment.
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Roelof Wobben said:
> Why change card. Its almost new and on FreeBSD and many linux distros the card
> is working well.
You might want to port Nouveau drivers. NVIDIA doesn't supply binary driver
(like those you used on Linux and FreeBSD) for OpenBSD.
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Hello!
I was updating my amd64 laptop with September 24 snapshot's bsd.rd, and it
didn't let me select etc and xetc sets - they were simply missing in the list
of sets. Is it a glitch? Or may be I missed some news?
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# exit
Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'done') [disk]
Is the disk partition already mounted? [yes] yes
Pathname to the sets? (or 'done') [5.3/i386] /mnt2/5.3/i386
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sven falempin wrote:
>Not helping .
What are your laptop vender and model?
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ws 10 years ago (though I had only
one OS in between). What madness are you talking about?
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with snapshots from end of September of
beginning of October.
That said, my urtwn dongle is really tiny, and it is nearly always hot
(eg. it is right now), so this may be a coincidence. Otherwise it works
OK, or at least better then my previous WiFi hardware. (And better then
it does under Windows, btw.)
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rt 3 enabled
port 4 enabled
port 5 powered
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at said, you may try disabling controllers via
UKC(8)[2], but I am not sure whether it is available in bsd.rd.
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[1] http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140106055302
[2] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/UKC.8
Alessandro DE LAURENZIS said:
> It's just me? Any hints? Any point in the right direction for a proper
> debug more than welcome.
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=141321944629586&w=2
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ace works as
expected.) These octet arrays may happen to be valid utf-8 as well.
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c hope that NFD will be enforced by
every OS and filesystem out there any time soon, so at this stage file
names with bytes outside printable ASCII range will cause problems at
some point. On my systems I limit filenames to [0-9A-Za-z~._/-] range.
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rary Unicode
codepoints with no sanitization whatsoever. Every now and then I have
to use printf(1) and xclip(1x) just because there is no other way to
address a file or identify all codepoints of its name. From here I
don't see ability to enforce policy on Unicode strings as something as
useless as you put it.
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Thomas Bohl said:
> # ls | cat
> Will display the characters right.
> Not entirely sure why though.
>From ls(1) manual:
| -q Force printing of non-graphic characters in file names as the
| character `?'; this is the default when output is to a terminal.
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d of dead keys, so my input was NFD, while
name of the file I got from somewhere was NFC.
> And btw, normalization won't do much about 'homographs':
>
> $ echo > ∕еtс∕раsswd
> $ rm ∕еtс∕раsswd
> $
This is a separate problem. My suggestion does not help here, which
does not render it useless for other cases.
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P.S.: I don't actually propose to implement filename normalization in
OpenBSD right now. I've merely thrown this idea to generate potentially
fruitful discussion. Don't mistake it for feature request or demand of
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nge worth the trouble. I
think it is, although unanimous negative reaction hints that I am
probably missing something important.
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implementing that the filename you provide as example above would be
stored as is, as it is already NFD and can't be further decomposed. I
never suggested NFKD as your message implies.
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nonical form)
the set of glyphs that makes the filename would remain exactly the same.
This is not even a policy, just consistent representation.
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glish locale and then switch to non-English locale,
your GNOME will rename XDG directories to new locale defaults, and
Firefox will re-create "~/Desktop". I rarely have to deal with systems
with non-English locales, but each and every time I have to, I get
terrified with the changes since the last time.
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ese are already problematic
enough to be avoided in all cases where NFD or NFC do the job.
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you could install it before you first log into GNOME. I
used this approach to sanitize structure of my home directory when I
needed a working GNOME desktop.
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m bsd.rd after installer exits?
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contains
firmware and does not require loading it at initialization time? Or is
this kind of firmware OK according to your definition of free?
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Could someone please explain me why this happened?
Unlikely until you mention the model of your laptop and describe the
problem in more detail.
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Henrique Lengler said:
> I would like to install a custom keymap on my system
Are you talking about X11 or console keymap? The former is defined in
/usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/symbols/, the latter – in
/usr/src/sys/dev/pckbc/wskbdmap_mfii.c.
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ts region (as
in Alexander III of Macedon).
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27;m sorry, but this is simply a fact. To get a country code assigned,
> you will need to contact the ISO. We are unable to assign one for them.
I guess it is not the lack of country code for Kosovo he is upset with.
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Zeljko Jovanovic said:
> I thought at least OpenBSD people had some understanding of how world
> politics work.
This is wrong forum for "world politics" discussions. Let's not
digress.
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firmware is reading past
> the MBR and into the actual disk partitions, seems strange.
Firmware may be trying to verify integrity of ntldr just like UEFI
firmware would. Makes sense as "security feature" in PR department's
view.
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#x27; Disk Management tool (You can find it in Computer
Management shell).
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Erling Westenvik said:
> My Windows computers does not have this problem, neither does my laptop
> when it's connected through various gateways.
And what about user-agent from your desktop and laptop? Do they work?
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Joseph Oficre said:
> ) at /usr/src/lib/librthread/rthread.c:145
FWIW what version of OpenBSD are you using? If the answer is not
exactly "recent snapshot", you should probably try it there, as all of
the openbsd-wip ports tree development happens on -current.
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in a page mostly talking about routers, other
> "tweaks" which are nothing to do with networking and in some cases
> dangerous.
It would be nice if someone with expertise could write a detailed
explanation of the issues with that article...
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table, and ports that are too current to be in -current
more so. Actually, some of ports from openbsd-wip are not submitted
because they still wait some changes in base or ports.
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ML5 is *the* cross-platform API for application development.
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sufficient in most
cases.
P.S.: From my previous experience with ASUS R2Hv and preinstalled Vista
I concluded that handwriting recognition is very inefficient.
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in GPT), you may even free a bit of space and install
OpenBSD there. Or back up your system and do a full install. Another
option would be to install OpenBSD to a flash drive, and boot from
there; it would be painfully slow, but will give you a simple way of
testing hardware compatibility.
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Joseph Oficre said:
> PS: i've made live USB, booted, but first FAST check didnt give me any
> results, just segfault on xorg -configure, need more time for it :c
You have to write xorg.conf yourself. IIRC a Monitor section and
modeline from gtf(1) would suffice.
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st of installed packages that failed to update.
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Adam Wolk said:
> Is the issue reproducible? Maybe it was a temporary network glitch?
I can access this repository just fine, it isn't empty, and the same
happens with other repos.
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Dmitry Orlov said:
> (i386) snapshot and amd64 packages ?
> :http://ftp5.eu.openbsd.org/ftp/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/
No, amd64 everything.
I updated again (from another mirror, which shouldn't matter), and now
everything is fine.
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Jan Stary said:
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless
> lists the supported wireles chipsets, marking with NFF
> those that need the non-free firmware to be downloaded.
>
> It does not mark iwn(4) as such,
It should.
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Marc Espie said:
> > I believe this is reported when $PKG_TMPDIR isn't writable.
>
> Definitely looks like somebody had fun with his /var/tmp <-> /tmp change... :p
Not me. I didn't even touch either directory neither before nor after
the breakage.
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lems with hardware graphics acceleration.
Do other GStreamer-based programs play the same videos fine? What about
non-Gstreamer software, eg. ffplay from ffmpeg?
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s attacks - hardware or software.
Hardware attacks? With flamethrowers?
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Some Developer said:
> So what are the reasons why OpenBSD has so far shunned Clang and LLDB? Is it
> missing some extra security features that the OpenBSD team have added to
> their version of GCC?
First and foremost it is missing platform support.
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borted at -e line 1.
Am I missing something obvious? Is there anything I can do about it?
OpenBSD -current amd64 (latest snapshot), PerlMagick from
ImageMagick-6.7.7.7p2 package.
Thanks in advance.
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ng failed!
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) perl -e "use Image::Magick;"
Is there any way to use Image::Magick on OpenBSD? If no, why does it get
built?
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:31:40PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2013-01-12, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I was trying to build a piece of software that uses Image::Magick, when I
> > ran
> > into the following problem on amd64 -curren
. Hell, even Qt-based Arora
pulls dconf. Given the recent (well, not quite recent) news from GNOME
project, in several years it might be easier to implement proper Jingle
support to non-GTK-based jabber client then porting recent
Firefox/Chromium/ to OpenBSD.
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 02:10:45PM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:53:43PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote:
> > <.> It'll be a lot easier to have an HTML5
> > compliant browser with support for WebRTC all over the pl
nf, as I keep all the settings I can out of dconf's touch,
just because I don't like it. To my knowledge, no dconf key is altered in my
setup, so I probably don't make any actual use of it anyway.
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W Intel is lobbying Atom-based mobile devices. If such devices ever come to
exiistance, the idea of OpenBSD may ultimately make some sense. As of now it
would be just a waste of developers' time, which is quite limited.
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e status bar.
There used to be a patch for updating look&feel settings of dwb via
Xresources. I believe the fork of dwb including this feature is x11/echinus.
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Lampshade said:
> Do you think that learning Rust can be good for educational purposes?
Learning anything is good for educational purposes.
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ven then they fail to point at anything in particular.
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a huge attack vector which can't be
dealt with by installing OpenBSD-based firmware.
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, does
> include a binary from Intel, called FSP.
> """
They admit that their hardware has vendors' firmware as well:
| There are also hardware components, like the HD or SSD, that are
| flashable, and therefore upgradeable, but that currently run firmware
| that is not yet freed.
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Joel Rees said:
> Do you have debian running to do the extraction? (I do have wheezy
> running on a different box, but it would be interesting to know what
> tools you used.)
You may use ar(1).
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Max Power said:
> How to mount shared device via samba fs?
You may use sharity-light package.
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STeve Andre' said:
> I'm looking in the ports tree for something to test a camera that shows up
> as uvideo0.
You can use video(1) from base system for testing.
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Brian Callahan said:
> Not quite with removing patches/patch-Makefile though: the install
> routine uses a GNU install extension (-D). So a patch needs to exist
> removing that.
Actually not: ports call /bin/install via wrapper that strips unknown
options.
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mbzade...@gmail.com said:
> suggestion 1 about active partition did not work for me
Details?
> suggestion 3 is completely wrong!
Details?
I've tried these options, and they worked as charm.
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mer devices' firmwares don't read partition table
on USB flash devices, so these systems won't notice your OpenBSD
partition, but it will be bootable.
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sts, howto articles
and other sources of information on this topic, you so shouldn't have
problems with finding out details.
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plication. It is native to TCL, and it can be used just as easily
from python via Tkinter, which is part of python's standard library.
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ce
because of its simplicity.
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Thuban said:
> Oh, that was it.
> It works after a
> # chmod 666 /dev/fuse0
>
> Not sure it's really secure thought.
You only need 660 and your user in 'wheel' group.
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Devin Ceartas said:
> Can you run Swift on OpenBSD?
No, we don't run birds.
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y be just as broken as major browsers. Who knows?
There is no safe bet here. Pick whatever you want, and you'll loose
eventually. Or maybe you won't, but only if you are lucky enough.
Parsing HTML manually is probably the safest option, albeit ugly. You
will still suffer from bugs in your HTTP(S) tool though.
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ds come with Russian
glyphs as pre-applied labels. These don't last long.
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ing every site I want to use is a pain and many won't work from IP.
>
> I am coming through wifi with NAT that I do not control.
>
> Any fixes to this problem.
echo -e "1i\nnameserver 8.8.8.8\n.\nwq" | doas ed /etc/resolv.conf.tail
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Chris Bennett said:
> Neither 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 works.
What does that mean, precisely? Can you ping them?
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Theo Buehler wrote:
>Yes, of course, but the problem with adding the section numbers is that
>
>http://man.openbsd.org/doas.8";>doas(8)
>
>won't work, while the mistake
>
>http://man.openbsd.org/doas";>doas(8),
>
>still produces what I want. That's why I don't think that adding the
>numbers to t
"Stefan Wollny" wrote:
>For some time now I cannot copy-paste text from a xterm \
>window by simultaneously pressing
>left and right mouse buttons.
>
>Anyone an idea?
>From mouse(4):
| Option "Emulate3Buttons" "boolean"
| Enable/disable the emulation of the third (middle) mou
Francois Pussault wrote:
>> On 2016-08-08 Mon 14:39 PM |, johnw wrote:
>>> Hi, I use /bin/ksh as a console/terminal shell program, I want to
>>> log/backup all command, run on console/terminal/ksh,
>>>
>>> Any idea how to do this?
>>>
>>
>> See HISTFILE and HISTSIZE in ksh(1).
>
> Using Ksh optio
ved as security risk.
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and "ttu" whitelist domains for
javascript. See dwb(1) manual for details.
[0] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/AT-SPI_on_D-Bus
[1] http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/#faq
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ne
of the selling points of dwb, and if documentation doesn't make its
usage clear, it's a bug.
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ns
on the very first page of search results. (I didn't bother checking
other archives as gmane is the one I prefer.)
[1] http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
[2]
http://search.gmane.org/?query=git+switch&author=&group=gmane.os.openbsd.misc
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ion of installation). As I
prefer the latter way, patch to root.mail follows.
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Index: root.mail
===
RCS file: /var/cvs/src/etc/root/root.mail,v
retrieving revision 1.104
diff -u -p -r1.104 root.mail
--- root.mail 1
debug
> log reveals the following:
FWIW I use mbsync (from mail/isync) to sync Gmail to local maildir, and
have my mutt set up to work in maildir only. I set up cron to call
mbsync on schedule, and I from then I totally forgot about the
crappiness of Gmail's IMAP interface.
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Theo de Raadt said:
> Oh, you want us to call the snapshots 57, instead?
>
> How will that enligthen people?
FWIW naming snapshots after release they lead to is more helpful then
naming them after previous release that does not include some of their
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So far numbering snapshots after next release branch makes more sense to
me. That said, making sense to project members is much more important
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s
default OS, which takes quite a lot of time.
I didn't try GPT setup, though I believe it could be done easily
regardless lack of GPT support in OpenBSD. If there is enough interest,
I could make a go for GPT Windows and OpenBSD dualboot and send a diff
for FAQ if my idea works out.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff said:
> > Did you actually read that ? notice how it stops with Windows Vista/7 ?
>
> I was planning to send a diff - I dualboot OpenBSD and Windows 8.1, and
> all the steps to set it up are the same. The only thing to keep in mind
> about Windows 8+ is t
ily reclaimed for OS the OP would prefer if
dualboot was impossible.
I see no way to defend OP against lack of proper research allegation.
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Peter Hessler said:
> On 2013 Nov 15 (Fri) at 07:01:35 +0100 (+0100), Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
> :I see no way to defend OP against lack of proper research allegation.
>
> It would be nice though, if people would stop actively being dicks.
When I only came to OpenBSD, my disli
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