From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 29 11:04:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C635B1065677 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:04:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout3.freenet.de (mout3.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE458FC1C for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:04:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.21] (helo=11.mx.freenet.de) by mout3.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jqnd6-0000B7-Iw for freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:04:12 +0200 Received: from r9417.r.pppool.de ([89.54.148.23]:35504 helo=peedub.jennejohn.org) by 11.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #12) id 1Jqnd6-0004gb-B6 for freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:04:12 +0200 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:04:11 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20080429130411.4ce9e984@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20080429104206.966715vjspapthls@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <20080428204301.GB78357@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> <06495214@ipt.ru> <20080429104206.966715vjspapthls@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: net/skype, linux_base-fc6 and the missing linux-alsa-lib... X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:04:14 -0000 On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:42:06 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Boris Samorodov (from Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:14:25 +0400): > > Note: almost all linuxolator changes where merged from 8-CURRENT to > > 7-STABLE. But I'm not sure if the default compat.linux.osrelease is > > ever changed to 7.x. > > That's a good question. I before we get some data how the transition > from 2.4 to 2.6 in -current works out or the users, we can not give an > answer. > I switched to -fc8 and 2.6.16 a few weeks ago. The few Linux-based things which I use regularly (linux-firefox, realplayer, flash with firefox, acroread8) continue to work just fine. I should mention that linux-firefox sometimes dumps core for no apparent reason (I haven't seen any useful error messages), but killing the leftover running processes and restarting it works. Note that I'm running 8-current. --- Gary Jennejohn