Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

2019-05-10 Thread Greg Troxel
Jason Mitchell writes: >> Sure, but there is also "runs on small amounts of 12V". I think often >> people want (I do) a low power machine that will cause zero trouble, and >> improvements in performance aren't that big a deal. (I'm not entirely >> clear on apu2 power, but the Soekris boxes

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

2019-05-10 Thread Jason Mitchell
> On May 7, 2019, at 6:17 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Andrew Luke Nesbit writes: > >> For the same money as the APU2 you can get a real mainboard, one with a >> much more solid construction and better performance. Similarly with >> many other SBC's in that price level. If you look hard

Re: sdf members : please participate in the poll for choice of OS

2019-05-10 Thread Andy Ruhl
I voted. Linux is boring. Andy

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

2019-05-10 Thread Mike Pumford
On 07/05/2019 13:23, David Brownlee wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 18:16, Mike Pumford wrote: On 04/05/2019 15:30, Mayuresh wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:49:58PM +0800, Travis Paul wrote: You mentioned that you were looking for an amd64 board. Have you looked at the PCEngines APU2

Re: "route_enqueue: queue full, dropped message" blast from a 8.99.32 amd64 domU

2019-05-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 10 May 2019 13:05:04 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: Subject: Re: "route_enqueue: queue full, dropped message" blast from a 8.99.32 amd64 domU > > I would imagine that if an interface is interupting that much then > it's constantly sending messages to route(4) to say that it's up/down > and

Um pulseaudio...

2019-05-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
How embarrassing is that? Please allow me a do-over: Epiphany built very nicely from pkgsrc, and in the process built qt5-qtmultimedia, and pulseaudio. However, epiphany doesn't seem able to play any audio. I can play wav files just tine from the command prompt using audioplay. Clearly I am a

How does pulseaudio work?

2019-05-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
Epiphany built very nicely from pkgsrc, and in the process built qt5-qtmultimedia, and pulseaudio. However epiphany doesn't seem able to play any audio. I can play wav files just tine from the command prompt using audioplay. Clearly I am a few pepperoni short of a pizza. How do I implemnet

pkg_add vs pkgin

2019-05-10 Thread Mayuresh
http://pkgin.net/ says: NetBSD, and more widely, all operating systems relying on pkgsrc have tools like pkg_add and pkg_delete, but those are unable to correctly handle binary upgrades, and sometimes even installation itself. Could someone please clarify what it means? Are pkg_add

Running RPI2 NetBSD image on qemu?

2019-05-10 Thread Mayuresh
I do not know whether this is even supposed to work. Trying this with qemu-3.1.0nb5 on NetBSD 8.0 amd64, with image from http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/evbarm-earmv7hf/binary/gzimg/armv7.img.gz A minimal command: qemu-system-arm -machine raspi2 -vga std -sd armv7.img Get a

Re: sdf members : please participate in the poll for choice of OS

2019-05-10 Thread Bruce Nagel
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:11:31AM +, Christopher Pinon wrote: U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: If anybody has the email address for one of the SDF admins, could you please let me know? Or, forward my email address to them and tell them I need to make contact regarding my account? I

Re: sdf members : please participate in the poll for choice of OS

2019-05-10 Thread Christopher Pinon
Bruce Nagel wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:11:31AM +, Christopher Pinon wrote: > >U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > > >> If anybody has the email address for one of the SDF admins, could you > >> please let me know? Or, forward my email address to them and tell them > >> I need to

Re: "route_enqueue: queue full, dropped message" blast from a 8.99.32 amd64 domU

2019-05-10 Thread Roy Marples
On 10/05/2019 00:40, Greg A. Woods wrote: [Thu May 9 09:24:08 2019][ 6442662.0806318] route_enqueue: queue full, dropped message There were thousands of identical lines, all separated by a few microseconds. No doubt this spew was the real cause of the apparent interrupt storm and the

Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

2019-05-10 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:16:06AM +0100, U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > I have used Hetzner in the past and they didn't offer the required > subset of KVM-like functionality. I asked their support team a few > months ago and was told I'd have to get a dedicated server. It will be very

Re: sdf members : please participate in the poll for choice of OS

2019-05-10 Thread Christopher Pinon
U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > If anybody has the email address for one of the SDF admins, could you > please let me know? Or, forward my email address to them and tell them > I need to make contact regarding my account? > > I donated several days ago for ARPA membership but I haven't

Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

2019-05-10 Thread Christopher Pinon
U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > On 10 May 2019 07:53:06 BST, Mayuresh wrote: > >On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 06:45:14AM +0100, U'll Be King Of The Stars > >wrote: > >> FYI all I made an account at Vultr.com and installed OpenBSD (not > >> Net*). Anyway, it was a nice process. But the $2.50 and

Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

2019-05-10 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 10 May 2019 07:53:06 BST, Mayuresh wrote: >On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 06:45:14AM +0100, U'll Be King Of The Stars >wrote: >> FYI all I made an account at Vultr.com and installed OpenBSD (not >> Net*). Anyway, it was a nice process. But the $2.50 and $3.50 >VPS'es >> didn't seem to exist. >

Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

2019-05-10 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 06:45:14AM +0100, U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > FYI all I made an account at Vultr.com and installed OpenBSD (not > Net*). Anyway, it was a nice process. But the $2.50 and $3.50 VPS'es > didn't seem to exist. `didn't exist' or `sold out'? The availability may vary