Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:04:31 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Message-ID: <36A0AA7F.8BEB975C@uk.radan.com> References: <199901150819.TAA06812@ska.bsn> <369F692C.C3D452C6@softweyr.com> <369F8803.81DB0359@uk.radan.com> <369FA811.A675DA24@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Mark Ovens wrote:
> >
> > Wes Peters wrote:
> > >
> > > I have two desktop machines, a SPARCstation 5 and a PII 266 running
> > > FreeBSD. I still prefer the SPARCstation because it has a better
> > > keyboard, but prefer FreeBSD to Slowlaris for everything else. Plus,
> > > the FreeBSD machine is a LOT faster than the SPARC 5. ;^)
> >
> > I'll agree with the observation about the keyboard. Sun do a converter
> > to allow you to use a PC keyboard with a Sun, shame they don't they do
> > one that does the opposite :-(.
> >
> > FWIW, my K6-233 with FreeBSD 2.2.8 is lot faster than my Sparc10 (SunOS
> > 4.1.3_U1), bith with 64MB. Mind you it's not a fair comparison, what was
> > a top of the range PC when Sparc 5 & 10 were top Sun workstations?.
> > That's the comparison you'd have to make.
>
> My home system is a K6/233, and it's a nice quick little beast too. It's
> faster at some things than the PII/266, and slower at others. It also
> has a very nice keyboard made by NMB, say 95% as good as the Sun Type 5,
> but I can't find a local dealer that stocks them anymore. <Sigh>
>
> > BTW, as you're a Sun and FreeBSD user, do you know if it's possible to
> > map the function keys in FreeBSD to perform the functions of L2 - L10
> > (don't really need L1 ;-) ) on a Sun Keyboard?
>
> In what? Most window managers will let you bind keystrokes to actions,
> and it's certainly easy to do in Emacs. ;^)
>
In OpenLook (olvwm). I particularly want the Cut, Copy, Paste keys
(quicker than using the pop-up menu in shelltool). The Open and Front
keys would be nice too. I know there are escape sequences to perform the
actions of these 2 keys but not as toggles, i.e. you need a separate
keys for Front and Back.
I've tried several ways of making the bindings without success, even
though there are entries for ``Sun Copy'' etc in the keysym table.
> --
> Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
>
> Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061
> Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com
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