Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:55:04 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux gnome libraries etc. Message-ID: <fp6mf9$p10$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20080214091408.GA82434@freebsd.org> References: <20080213224717.GA59146@freebsd.org> <53884346@ipt.ru> <20080214091408.GA82434@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Roman Divacky wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:41:09AM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:47:17 +0100 Roman Divacky wrote: >>> I tried to run firefox 3 beta 3 under linux emulation and >>> it crashed because of some missing symbol in pango and I think >>> its because our linux-pango is really outdated and does not >>> meet the minimal requirements for firefox3. >>> why havent these ports been updated? >> The port won't ever be updated. More likely a new port, say >> linux-f7-glib2 will appear after the default osrelease is switched >> to 2.6.x. > > ah.... good to know.. will there be some sort of "update from fc4 to fc7" script? Have you (the Linux ABI compat developers, not necessarily you directly :) ) considered switching to CentOS as the default/official Linux compat environment? It's a RHEL mirror-image and despite RHEL's flaws its *the* distribution for complex "enterprise" software (think Oracle, SAP...). I can see two benefits from it: - its popularity from large 3rd party vendors of professional software (apparently Oracle support won't even listen to you if you try using it on anything but the certified distributions/versions). It's widely regarded as a "server" system, much like FreeBSD is. - it is updated much less often than Fedora (literally years pass before major updates) so if timed luckily, new versions of CentOS/RHEL could be adopted with major revisions of FreeBSD. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHtt0oldnAQVacBcgRAju0AKDRHWZpzo+QLugC49kAJdlWAH358QCgykV8 N9K6luKf37wx3KuO6FLJNfM= =mZeU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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