On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:41:53AM -0400, Mouse wrote: > > Do you want to contribute and do all the actual dirty work for once, > > or you're just here to talk and give your random opinions on things > > you've never invested yourself in? What is your background? What is > > your portfolio? > > You're right that I'm not particularly invested in the original issue; > I don't use Linux compatability myself and I don't run NetBSD more > recent than 5.2 on my own machines (at one of my jobs it looks as > though 8.0 will get used - the reasons I don't run it don't apply > there). I got involved in this thread because invalid "arguments" like > made-up usage statistics bother me. I'm not opposed to the change per > se (I'm not sure whether I think it would actually be a good thing); > I'm opposed to doing it for specious reasons like "<1% users > interested". > > My background? B.Sc. mathematics major, computer science minor. > Programming since the late '70s, been making my living programming > and/or sysadminning since 1984. Been involved with UNIX as a user > since BSD 4.1c, with NetBSD since shortly before the split that led to > OpenBSD. > > My portfolio? Look for "der Mouse" in mail-index.n.o's archives for my > past presence on the lists (including source-changes for what I did > back when I was still committing). Look for > mo...@rodents-montreal.org for my presence after I dropped the "der" - > possibly mo...@rodents.montreal.qc.ca too; I forget which change > occurred first. Look at ftp.rodents-montreal.org:/mouse/git-repos and > clone whichever of them you care to. Perhaps the most notable ones are > moussh, git-interactive, livebackup, Mouse/games/blockade, > Mouse/dreamcast, Mouse/mousemuck, Mouse/vax-emul, Mouse/netbsd-fork/*. > Historically, there's also Mouse-X (an X implementation for 2bpp NeXT > hardware - that one isn't a git repo AFAIK). Look at > ftp.rodents-montreal.org; much of what's there is old versions of stuff > I now keep in git repos (I really kneed to clean it up), but there's > probably at least a little other stuff there.
Probably the coolest thing is resize_ffs! Not sure you noticed, but now ARM images will resize themselves to the full size at boot, so to get a machine functional, all you need is to dd an image to an SD card and plug it in. It's so very convenient.