Author: Jude Nelson Date: To: Dave Turner CC: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] That one unsupported app: was Predictable Network
Interface Names - Stupid or good idea?
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Dave Turner <
dave_t_turner@???> wrote:
> All the BSDs have the packages I want and need, except working WiFi for
> laptops!
> My main desktop is an old Intel iMac. FreeBSD and PC-BSD would not install.
> I could not get sound to work on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
> So the old iMac runs debian jessie systemd and all.
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> My old laptop is now running devuan again, but this time as the Dom0 for a
> xen hypervisor that will run NetBSD. My hope is that xen will pass on the
> WiFi connection so that I have a NetBSD laptop with working WiFi. We'll see!
> So far I'm not sure the xen part is quite as it should be, I need to spend
> some more time with the docs.
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> DaveT
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> On 11/01/16 00:15, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
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> OpenBSD's overall stance on virtualization makes it a poor choice for a
> desktop OS unfortunately. I partially understand the reasoning, however,
> given the limits of software support on the *BSDs in general, and OpenBSD
> in particular, the lack of virtualization options effectively makes it
> unusable for a substantial number of users.
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> The situation on FreeBSD seems a little better though, and I've seriously
> considered making that switch.
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> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@???>
> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:55:48 +0000
>> Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> wrote:
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>> > Slackware is hard work when you have been used to the ease of debian
>> > for so many years...
>> > Eventually it all worked OK until one particular bit of music
>> > composition software I like to use could only be found in
>> > Slackbuilds, and it would not install even after I did some editing
>> > of the scripts. I gave up and installed devuan again.
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>> Devuan is an excellent distro and I applaud you for installing it.
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>> If you ever find that one app that you can't install on Devuan, just
>> run a VM or container that *does* do that app right, and run that one
>> app there.
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>> The entire reason why I didn't migrate to OpenBSD and happily stay
>> there in September 2014 is because OpenBSD has no functional and
>> working Qemu, and shows little motivation to change that. So I'd have
>> to permanently live without those couple programs I needed. Normal
>> Linuxes enable you to run other distros in VMs or containers, so choose
>> the best one, even if it won't do your favorite program.
>>
>> SteveT
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>> Steve Litt
>> January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 >>
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