Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-24 Thread perryh
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings it might be somewhat useful to me ... There _is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved in setting it up, but if someone were sufficiently motivated it would presumably be

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, July 24, 2011 a las 06:41:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings it might be somewhat useful to me ... There _is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is

pkg_delete yields 'no such package'

2011-07-24 Thread Toan H. Le
I installed FreeBSD for investigation purpose and reserve small hard disk space for it. Partition comes to nearly full and I decide to delete some 'doc' packages. Either I use 'pkg_delete xorg-docs' or 'pkg_delete xorg-docs-1.4.1', pkg_delete yields the error of 'no such package'. Checking via

Re: groff UTF-8

2011-07-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, July 23, 2011 a las 08:25:10PM +, Christian Weisgerber escribió: I've checked groff 1.21 from the ports but it seems to understand only making UTF-8 output with its driver -Tutf8. Is there a way to make it understand UTF-8 as input Use the preconv(1) command

Re: pkg_delete yields 'no such package'

2011-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/07/2011 08:48, Toan H. Le wrote: Either I use 'pkg_delete xorg-docs' or 'pkg_delete xorg-docs-1.4.1', pkg_delete yields the error of 'no such package'. Checking via 'pkg_info' and 'pkg_version' confirms the packages xorg-docs-1.4.1 installed. I think I did not use the wrong command.

emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2 system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling they are X related. I.e. Freetype, Jpeg, Gif, GConf en lots of others. So, I'm confused

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 24-7-2011 2:00 schreef Jerry: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:58:07 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: You are clearly an asshole who has no interest in having a reasonable discussion. Newer methods do not frighten me, you stupid asshole. Thanks Chad. At one time I thought you were intelligent with

Re: emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2 system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling they are X

Re: emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/07/2011 14:07, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: So I'm still looking for people who have done this ans _know_ it will work out OK. Been There, Done That. lucid-nonsense:~:% pkg_info -rRx emacs Information for emacs-23.3_1,2: Depends on: lucid-nonsense:~:% cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:48:46AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, July 24, 2011 a las 06:41:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings it might be somewhat useful to me

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 06:41:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings it might be somewhat useful to me ... There _is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved in setting

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.25 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2011-07-24 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Packages for wine-fbsd64-1.3.25 have been uploaded to mediafire [1]. This does contain XInput2 support (whereas wine-fbsd64-1.3.24 does not). There are reports of sound problems. To date there has been 685 downloads from mediafire. nVidia uses should rerun patch-wine-nvidia.sh after

Re: emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread RW
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:15:23 +0200 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2 system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling they are X related. I.e.

Re: best way to replicate system

2011-07-24 Thread krad
make sure you use the --numeric-ids option as well On 24 July 2011 01:58, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 July 2011 04:54, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and

any EASY [and secccure] BBS/forum boards?

2011-07-24 Thread Gary Kline
It's timed to get off my duff and put back the kind of discussion forum that I had several years ago. the last time i tried to set one up was in june, '08 (phpbb3), and i flubbed. [[excuse was that i as drowning on my thesis work...]] i want to create a forum in cryonics.thought.org and

Re: pkg_delete yields 'no such package'

2011-07-24 Thread b. f.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/07/2011 08:48, Toan H. Le wrote: Either I use 'pkg_delete xorg-docs' or 'pkg_delete xorg-docs-1.4.1', pkg_delete yields the error of 'no such package'. Checking via 'pkg_info' and 'pkg_version' confirms the packages xorg-docs-1.4.1 installed. I think I did not

ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018.html However, I'll summarize. At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA drives into an Intel-S5000-based production

ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
(Sorry for the previous post, I accidentally hit sent, while the messages was still unfinished). Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018.html However, I'll summarize. At the

Re: pkg_delete yields 'no such package'

2011-07-24 Thread Toan Le
It's great by correcting package name. Thanks for your tips of '-x' option !!! Regards, Toan Le On 7/25/2011 6:28 AM, b. f. wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/07/2011 08:48, Toan H. Le wrote: Either I use 'pkg_delete xorg-docs' or 'pkg_delete xorg-docs-1.4.1', pkg_delete yields the error of

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-24 Thread Jerome Herman
On 24/07/2011 15:41, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: There_is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved in setting it up, but if someone were sufficiently motivated it would presumably be possible to develop an app to provide access to bash (and thence any other desired command-line

what to do about missing Flash and missing Java

2011-07-24 Thread Henry Olyer
I love FreeBSD, (and though years ago I was a Slackware user,) I much prefer the BSD's. But guy's, we really have to solve these problems. So here it is, I just installed 8.2 and need the latest Flash. What's the right procedure here, please. ___

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Jerome Herman
On 25/07/2011 01:58, Andrea Venturoli wrote: (Sorry for the previous post, I accidentally hit sent, while the messages was still unfinished). Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of:

Re: what to do about missing Flash and missing Java

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:22:54 -0500, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: So here it is, I just installed 8.2 and need the latest Flash. What's the right procedure here, please. Java is not a problem and non-native flash has worked without issues here for a very long time. In