Re: OpenBSD Project

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 12:40 PM Theo de Raadt wrote: > Perhaps the reason it has worked so long is because we don't have a > sentence like this, which some may consider contentious, and use as > reason to pick yet another infamous fight where they believe they know > better than a quarter decade

Re: SCM

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:49 AM Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Avstin Kim wrote on Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:58:50AM -0400: > > > CVS for source code management. > > That's kind of a frequently asked question. > > Some of us (including myself) actually prefer CVS over git for tasks > where it is suffiecie

Re: SCM

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 8:31 PM Австин Ким wrote: > I can't argue with that, and obviously code quality is infinitely more > important than what SCM you use, but I feel you run the risk of turning off > potential new developers coming out of colleges and universities who cut > their > teeth on di

Re: SCM

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 3:27 PM Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 01:24:02PM -0400, Nathan Hartman wrote: > > *IF* the OpenBSD devs ever wants to change SCMs--I said **IF**--then I > > root for Subversion. > > Vetoed, for 3 simple reasons: > (snip) >

Re: Will future programmers probably warn people not to use high-level programming languages just as most programmers today warn people not to use assembler?

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 7:41 AM Clark Block wrote: > Just as most programmers today warn people not to use assembler, probably > future programmers will warn people not to use high-level programming > languages. In the future, computers will program programmers.

Re: Porting some software to OpenBSD

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 10:27 PM Adam Steen wrote: > Hi All > > I have a question about string (printf) formatting. > > I have a variable > > 'uint64_t freq' > > which is printed with > > 'log(DEBUG, "Solo5: clock_init(): freq=%lu\n", freq);' > > but am getting the following error > > ' > error: f

Re: console radeondrm default font change

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 3:20 PM Mihai Popescu wrote: > https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/ Wow that is a beautiful font.

Re: Research and OpenBSD: How can I help?

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:35 PM Frank Beuth wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 04:22:05AM +, Paul Swanson wrote: > >Are there particular problems that could benefit from new > >ideas or solutions? > > An area that I am personally interested in is running OpenBSD on fully > open-source / binary-

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 1:26 PM Steve Litt wrote: > As I travel this earth I continue to be amazed at peoples' fascination > with tiny fonts. Perhaps that's to pack more stuff on the screen. But > then they go on to make the text low contrast in the name of "pretty", > thereby locking out those w

Re: single user question

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:28 PM ropers wrote: > > In the history of the (Berkeley) Fast File System, has there ever been > an attempt to implement DOS-like undelete for FFS/UFS? > (I understand that for technical reasons, this could require running a > daemon that remembers just enough metadata

Future of X.org?

Came across this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Maintenance-Mode-Quickly Long story short, Red Hat hopes to switch from X.Org to Wayland and expects X.Org to go into "hard maintenance mode" after that. Relevant to OpenBSD?

Re: OT: hardware war with manufacturers (espionage claims)

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:28 PM Brian Brombacher wrote: > Oh and if the implant is smart, it’ll detect you’re trying to find it and > go dormant. > > Even more good luck! Well then the solution is obvious. Design your own hardware. Or learn to live off the land.

Re: When will OpenBSD become a friendly place for bug reporters?

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 2:43 PM Marc Espie wrote: > - we do use gzip because other compression systems won't work with little > memory/don't have the right licence. You might find this interesting: https://github.com/silentbicycle/heatshrink