Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-07 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 06:24:07PM +0200, Jan Danielsson wrote: >I don't know how complicated those web login-things generally are. > The one at the university didn't require a session; one could just > submit the form and it worked. If that's the norm, then it's pretty > trivial to write a "w

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:34:08PM +0530, Utkarsh Anand wrote: > | for example people usally need $EDITOR other than vi/ed > > Has vi ever worked for anyone (in NetBSD)? I don't use anything but NetBSD's vi (I even install it on linux) -- Manuel Bouyer NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront t

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Utkarsh Anand
| There is 'x' in vi(1) to delete a character. Спасибо (Thanks)! That works! Regards, Utkarsh Anand

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Utkarsh Anand
| for example people usally need $EDITOR other than vi/ed Has vi ever worked for anyone (in NetBSD)? At least, for me, the backspace and delete keys never work (this happens only with NetBSD). Would you consider replacing it with nano? Regards, Utkarsh Anand

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Utkarsh Anand
> > Works just fine :-) I am typing on it right now. What does 'stty -a' > say on your terminal? speed 9600 baud; 67 rows; 240 columns; queue = 1024; line = termios; lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho pendin -nokerninfo

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Christos Zoulas
On Jul 6, 10:12pm, uanand...@gmail.com (Utkarsh Anand) wrote: -- Subject: Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience | speed 9600 baud; 67 rows; 240 columns; queue = 1024; line = termios; | lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl | -echoprt -altwe

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:54:16PM +0100, Sevan Janiyan wrote: > On 06/07/2017 16:52, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:23:09AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: > >> 1. A text browser in base. "lynx" or "links" come to mind, I don't > >>mind which, both are GPL2. > > No. Ser

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 07/06/17 17:23, Christos Zoulas wrote: [---] > Alas, because of network policy on the wifi network, I needed to enter > a code to access the network, and for that I needed a browser. We don't > ship a browser in base. > >>From the looks of it, a text browser would suffice (and it did), so > I d

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 06.07.2017 18:06, Christos Zoulas wrote: > On Jul 6, 9:34pm, uanand...@gmail.com (Utkarsh Anand) wrote: > -- Subject: Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience > > | Has vi ever worked for anyone (in NetBSD)? At least, for me, the backspace > | and delete keys never wor

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Alistair Crooks
On 6 July 2017 at 08:52, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:23:09AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> 1. A text browser in base. "lynx" or "links" come to mind, I don't >>mind which, both are GPL2. > > No. Seriously, no. Well, this is 2017, and not having any kind of browse

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Christos Zoulas
On Jul 6, 9:34pm, uanand...@gmail.com (Utkarsh Anand) wrote: -- Subject: Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience | Has vi ever worked for anyone (in NetBSD)? At least, for me, the backspace | and delete keys never work (this happens only with NetBSD). Would you | conside

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Sevan Janiyan
On 06/07/2017 16:52, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:23:09AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> 1. A text browser in base. "lynx" or "links" come to mind, I don't >>mind which, both are GPL2. > No. Seriously, no. > Could we ensure it's one of the available packages on the

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 06.07.2017 17:23, Christos Zoulas wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I installed netbsd-8 on an ancient dell latitude x1. For the > most part the installation went fine, and I booted to a working system, > with both X and networking working. NetBSD runs very nicely on it and > it is quite fast :-) >

Re: adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:23:09AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: > 1. A text browser in base. "lynx" or "links" come to mind, I don't >mind which, both are GPL2. No. Seriously, no. > 2. Pre-built packages for NetBSD-8. Sure, would be nice to have. Not sure we have the free build ressources,

adding stuff to the base installation to make user experience better

2017-07-06 Thread Christos Zoulas
Hello, Yesterday I installed netbsd-8 on an ancient dell latitude x1. For the most part the installation went fine, and I booted to a working system, with both X and networking working. NetBSD runs very nicely on it and it is quite fast :-) Alas, because of network policy on the wifi network, I