On 3/12/10, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi, Elmar-- > > On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: >> I am looking forward to engage in FreeBSD by implementing ext3-support >> and a suspend to disk facility. > > mount_ext2fs or fusefs ought to work with ext3 filesystems. > > zzz or "acpiconf -s 4" ought to address the suspend to disk facility, but it > depends greatly upon the quality of the BIOS to actually conform with the > ACPI spec. >
I believe that OP is talking about OS support and not about BIOS support. Linux _have_ OS support for suspend to disk, freebsd does not. >> If there would be any interest I also ported my checkroot facility >> (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/). > > How is this different from what's already available: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html > > ...or via something like tripwire? If you're only doing MD5 and not > something like SHA1 or SHA256 (or multiple checksums, better yet), I don't > see the point > >> However all these little configuration issues like UTF-8 support are >> out of the scope what I can do because I am not a packager. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "UTF-8" support. FreeBSD itself does > reasonably well, and the quality of third-party ports varies. > >> I would be glad if the responsible packagers or anyone else was willing to >> engage >> in this. At least I will have to think about my engagement in terms of >> community support for precious issues like this one. > > It's unclear what you mean by this. At the basic level, things happen by > people writing changes and submitting patches. There is no shortage of > opinions which are sadly lacking code. :-) > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
