custom build

2016-04-04 Thread John R. Towler
Hello, I got my editing for taste in fortune to work. I thought there had to be a source for what the cksum gets calculated from which was my blockage point. I did M-x grep-find on /usr/src for the fortunes file, and found /usr/src/distrib/sets/lists/games/mi with the files listed for games and

Re: pts vs tty: differences and usage

2016-04-04 Thread Rocky Hotas
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 at 3:01 PM > From: "Thor Lancelot Simon" > To: "Rocky Hotas" > Cc: "NetBSD Users Mailing List" > Subject: Re: pts vs tty: differences and usage > > As I read this, I'm hoping I'm not doing your homework for you. Don't worry, it is not a homework, I'm not in a cou

Re: pts vs tty: differences and usage

2016-04-04 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:30:24PM +0200, Rocky Hotas wrote: > Hello! > First of all, I hope this topic is still appropriate for this section. > As regards terminals and pseudoterminals, NetBSD seems very similar to Linux. > A terminal in a GUI is run into a /dev/ptsx; if the OS is run in text mod

pts vs tty: differences and usage

2016-04-04 Thread Rocky Hotas
Hello! First of all, I hope this topic is still appropriate for this section. As regards terminals and pseudoterminals, NetBSD seems very similar to Linux. A terminal in a GUI is run into a /dev/ptsx; if the OS is run in text mode, the /dev/ttyx is used instead. /dev/ptsx (where x is a number in

Re: Poor quality pdf from firefox and now graphviz

2016-04-04 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 07:49:20PM +0200, Christoph Lemke wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 08:04:06 +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > > > For a long time I have been facing poor quality pdf output (poor > > > > resolution fonts with pixels appearing) from the "Print to File" dialog > > > > of firefox. I someh

NetBSD on the HP Stream 11

2016-04-04 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Hi, has anybody got a positive experience of running NetBSD on a HP Stream 11? I have seen a few guides on how to run Ubuntu on it. I wonder if this positive experience could extend to NetBSD. In particular I'm worried about WiFi and sound. Thanks -- Ottavio -- Ottavio