Re: Unified BSD?
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > At least a sixth, IIRC. You left out MirBSD from your distribution list. > Also, you could argue that Minix, with its NetBSD compatibility, > is a seventh and MacOS-X, with its partially (Free-/Net-)BSD compatible > userland, an eighth. OS X has benefitted greatly from FreeBSD, Apple hiring former FreeBSD core team members. And indirectly from OpenBSD as well, with modern versions of OS X, 10.7+, have pf. Cross pollination is a huge benefit to the BSD community. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Unified BSD?
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > - Then DragonflyBSD split from FreeBSD. Mainly personality driven > AFAICT. Again, this doesn't imply any criticism of the founder of > the new project. There were some very valid technical reasons at the time as well, IMHO. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Two years ago today...
On Oct 4, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: You obviously haven't been upgrading enough. One day I will tell you teh story of teh "make world". You gonna sit him on your lap, pawpaw? ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Volunteer needed to create screen saver for BSDCan
Yeah, that's Tiger. I don't know if leopard quartz composer constructs work in Tiger. It might be worth a shot. You might also just want to play with QuartzComposer.app. On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 3, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Johan Beisser wrote: > > > > Leopard or Tiger? > > > > Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2167), which I think is Tiger. > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I need help. I need someone to create a screen saver to run on my Mac. > > > This screen saver will be used during the opening session of BSDCan. > > > > > > In short; I have about 20 emails I wish to have displayed. I can give > you > > > the emails or a PDF of each email, whichever you want. > > > > > > I had tried using just the PDF and the "Pictures Folder" screen saver. > This > > > was a good start. But each PDF contains large amounts of whitespace. > > > Each email occupies very little of one PDF page. Therefore, the screen > > > save > > > often shows this whitespace and nothing else. > > > > > > I'm not worried about how you achieve the result, but one suggestion I > > > thought > > > of was : convert the PDF to an image file and crop off the whitespace. > > > > > > Please contact me off-list and I will send you the PDFs/emails. Those > with > > > suggestions as to how to do this work are free to suggest, but I do not > > > want > > > to do the work as other parts of BSDCan are higher priority right now. > :) > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > > Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Volunteer needed to create screen saver for BSDCan
Leopard or Tiger? On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need help. I need someone to create a screen saver to run on my Mac. > This screen saver will be used during the opening session of BSDCan. > > In short; I have about 20 emails I wish to have displayed. I can give you > the emails or a PDF of each email, whichever you want. > > I had tried using just the PDF and the "Pictures Folder" screen saver. This > was a good start. But each PDF contains large amounts of whitespace. > Each email occupies very little of one PDF page. Therefore, the screen > save > often shows this whitespace and nothing else. > > I'm not worried about how you achieve the result, but one suggestion I > thought > of was : convert the PDF to an image file and crop off the whitespace. > > Please contact me off-list and I will send you the PDFs/emails. Those with > suggestions as to how to do this work are free to suggest, but I do not > want > to do the work as other parts of BSDCan are higher priority right now. :) > > Thanks. > > -- > Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ___ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo
On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: It could be anything from more support for FreeBSD to no support from Yahoo's side at all anymore. I like to think that MS learned their lesson on pulling FreeBSD from production use when they bought Hotmail. Perhaps not. "Eat your own dogfood" doesn't come pleasant when your dogfood is crap. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote: Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( (eg Papercut) Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds. That doesn't let you go both ways though, although just being able to browse forums in a usenet like way would be much nicer.. it's doable with a little bit of work. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community
On Jan 12, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: A usenet<->forum bridge would be nice since news looks enough like email for oldies to use :) Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( (eg Papercut) Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
