Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] [fpc-pascal] polYdev release 1.0 with fpc as superstar.

2016-09-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-09-26 14:58, Fred van Stappen wrote: > Huh, the 4th button in JWM-tray "Menu", then in button list > "Utilities", then "Transfer to device"... Awesome, I have to give that a try. I normally prefer to keep my development VM's, data and code on my 4-disk ZFS Raid-Z2, but having a USB stick

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] [fpc-pascal] polYdev release 1.0 with fpc as superstar.

2016-09-26 Thread Fred van Stappen
> Oh wow, no I haven't tried that. Where do I find that menu entry? Huh, the 4th button in JWM-tray "Menu", then in button list "Utilities", then "Transfer to device"... > As you might have guessed, I haven't actually tried out polYdev yet... Re-huh, indeed, there were too few "wow" so I

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] [fpc-pascal] polYdev release 1.0 with fpc as superstar.

2016-09-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-09-26 14:26, Fred van Stappen wrote: > Did you try, in menu ==> "Transfer to device" to transfer the > installed system to a usb stick ? > > It allows you to have a bootable-installed system on your usb stick, > working out-of-the-box. Oh wow, no I haven't tried that. Where do I find

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] [fpc-pascal] polYdev release 1.0 with fpc as superstar.

2016-09-26 Thread Fred van Stappen
Thanks Graeme for your attention. You are the only one and it really helps me to find courage for that difficult work, without help or answer at questions from FreeBSD forum. > and I'll definitely be using that distro i future client development VM's. Did you try, in menu ==> "Transfer to

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] [fpc-pascal] polYdev release 1.0 with fpc as superstar.

2016-09-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-09-26 10:19, Michael Schnell wrote: > AFAIK, Mac OS is based on BSD, so APIs should not be to different from > FreeBSD. OSX was based on a old FreeBSD base system. I think around FreeBSD 4.3, and FreeBSD is now at 10.3. > Why then does this distribution allow for Linux and Windows

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] [fpc-pascal] polYdev release 1.0 with fpc as superstar.

2016-09-26 Thread Michael Schnell
On 26.09.2016 11:11, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > As I'm a FreeBSD user for some years, > I'm also very happy Fred used FreeBSD as the base for his distro. > So maybe you could comment on a question that cam in my mind: AFAIK, Mac OS is based on BSD, so APIs should not be to different from

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] [fpc-pascal] polYdev release 1.0 with fpc as superstar.

2016-09-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-09-26 09:44, Michael Schnell wrote: > Astonishingly, s announcement did not gain any attention, though. I already commented in the fpgui.support newsgroup, where it was announced too. So I didn't see the point in commenting here again. ;-) Fred did excellent work, and I'll definitely be

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] [fpc-pascal] polYdev release 1.0 with fpc as superstar.

2016-09-26 Thread Michael Schnell
> Fred did announce it here too. There is a post about it - last week > Wednesday (17:25 GMT). So I'm sorry for the unnecessary traffic. Astonishingly, s announcement did not gain any attention, though. -Michael --