From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 12:01:17 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 6DF111065678 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f228.google.com (mail-ew0-f228.google.com [209.85.219.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045498FC1A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so340247ewy.13 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:01:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ahna5VubZ4vutc06IXpjRj3l3DDRcwBPyvRBXorxem8=; b=UnvMsNi/lTeWoAfj3ObF2I8ebeB/vgA3Unz6ELFdOi4tkszSDK0LwfmfsaUrwLxmgD NVRDf0ZvTs4ba0Y+eIeO8UuLS9Fa21dh5hJNQ/7Z1kvQPveOMmPquMTvkKXggTVOBWHk sJ1UWn/VXki6eR6yE6Zlw2NG15+/C2iUVgokc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=AOpr9gMZCPaeUZaiD7/gualZZfzQ/LsEO0NrJ5+h/9cPlPKu4r8Oh52juQo62fDprl a59qm1aiL7GNS7HTbrbXoUIJd7S4/OeTicb+I9uvDzPp/Klopj6AXrONyu2kHCpBogZe UbhCkkb0rLzBzihkIIOpAbeh6U5CqgdmHDz1A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.37.205 with SMTP id y13mr1042584ebd.86.1268481674876; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:01:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <14F5E195-F42E-4290-AD0B-60ED2AB9D475@mac.com> References: <4B98865B.5080300@gmail.com> <4B9A7FEB.5080308@gmail.com> <14F5E195-F42E-4290-AD0B-60ED2AB9D475@mac.com> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:01:14 +0100 Message-ID: <3a142e751003130401x58f8ec7ev30a3e8ccfa6f54ac@mail.gmail.com> From: Paul B Mahol To: Chuck Swiger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Elmar Stellnberger , 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: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:01:17 -0000 On 3/12/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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. > I believe that OP is talking about OS support and not about BIOS support. Linux _have_ OS support for suspend to disk, freebsd does not. >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >