From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 18:33:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36E51065674 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout029.mac.com (asmtpout029.mac.com [17.148.16.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED1E8FC1F for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:48 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp029.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KZ600L4VM87U670@asmtp029.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:33:48 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1003120149 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4B9A7FEB.5080308@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:33:43 -0800 Message-id: <14F5E195-F42E-4290-AD0B-60ED2AB9D475@mac.com> References: <4B98865B.5080300@gmail.com> <4B9A7FEB.5080308@gmail.com> To: Elmar Stellnberger X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: FreeBSD - Subject: Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:48 -0000 Hi, Elmar-- On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > I am looking forward to engage in FreeBSD by implementing ext3-support > and a suspend to disk facility. mount_ext2fs or fusefs ought to work with ext3 filesystems. zzz or "acpiconf -s 4" ought to address the suspend to disk facility, but it depends greatly upon the quality of the BIOS to actually conform with the ACPI spec. > If there would be any interest I also ported my checkroot facility (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/). How is this different from what's already available: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html ...or via something like tripwire? If you're only doing MD5 and not something like SHA1 or SHA256 (or multiple checksums, better yet), I don't see the point > However all these little configuration issues like UTF-8 support are > out of the scope what I can do because I am not a packager. I'm not sure what you mean by "UTF-8" support. FreeBSD itself does reasonably well, and the quality of third-party ports varies. > I would be glad if the responsible packagers or anyone else was willing to engage > in this. At least I will have to think about my engagement in terms of > community support for precious issues like this one. It's unclear what you mean by this. At the basic level, things happen by people writing changes and submitting patches. There is no shortage of opinions which are sadly lacking code. :-) Regards, -- -Chuck