Re: GNU/kFreeBSD bits, publicity, status report

2014-10-18 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Steven Chamberlain: * (delicately!) mention init system, still being a hot topic - no udev or systemd here; I guess that makes us a traditional Debian flavour, UNIX-like and POSIX-focused - we did lose GNOME (I think mainly due to logind, but also libgbm) - otherwise, we seem to

GNU/kFreeBSD bits, publicity, status report

2014-10-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi all, Ed Maste wrote: On 30 September 2014 16:35, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: We need to communicate better the state of kfreebsd and advancements since wheezy; we haven't done a 'bits' email in a long time. It is probably in much better state than most people realise.

Re: GNU/kFreeBSD bits, publicity, status report

2014-10-07 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi Steven, all! Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org writes: Some ideas so far (already more than I can cover in a single article, but) : * new since wheezy - KMS graphics Which also means proper mesa 3d drivers in some cases and even non-VESA screen resolutions (intel)! So quite an

Re: GNU/kFreeBSD bits, publicity, status report

2014-10-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 07/10/14 23:53, Christoph Egger wrote: - suspend/resume seems to work now FWIW not with wpa_supplicant alive and never twice in a row here (though the first time seems to be reliable otherwise). But suspend/resume certainly is something noone really expects to have reliable on every

Re: GNU/kFreeBSD bits, publicity, status report

2014-10-07 Thread Petr Salinger
- Petr rewrote our threads implementation in GNU libc Wasn't that in wheezy already? at least all the ruby hangs are gone in wheezy (and gone completely since squeeze EOL on the buildds) Petr first shared NPTL threads here, which was after wheezy release: