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Date:      Fri, 6 May 2022 19:56:47 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
Cc:        freebsd@dreamchaser.org, Ludovit Koren <ludovit.koren@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: running FreeBSD on Notebook
Message-ID:  <20220506195647.9357fb8b49f964082531c6fa@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjnG6VtDtOzw_6G3A8CR92BZsXYooWGT3Q%2Bbt0vtYmN-ZA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 6 May 2022 20:31:21 +0200
Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:

> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 7:56 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 May 2022 11:38:29 -0600
> > Gary Aitken wrote:
> > > I don't currently run fbsd on a laptop; I run ubuntu only because some
> > > apps I need like prusa-slicer aren't available on fbsd.
> >         I run slicer, Flashprint and Simplify3d[1] in a Linux VM under
> > Bhyve.
> 
> I did port CURA (both GUI and CLI part) some time ago around 2014..

	Thank you - I've used that a lot but found it buggy with dual
extruders.

> >From what I can see, Prusa software [1] is Open-Source and based on
> Slic3r [2]. I was using Slic3r too before I ported Cura. I cannot see
> the Slic3r anymore (maybe I was running it from the sources directly),
> but all Cura ports [3][4] and PrusaSlicer [5] seems to be still
> maintained natively on FreeBSD :-) Here is a forum thread on how to
> run Slic3r from the sources [6] :-)

	All the FreeBSD slicer ports are overdue for updating, they're some
way behind the current versions. OTOH most of the deeper bugs and
shortcomings aren't fixed in the newer versions.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/



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