Re: Maintaining alternative OS: emulator vs linux emulation layer

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20120602162625.GA11227%SDF.ORG@localhost>,
Mayuresh  <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 03:57:43PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> It depends on what you want to do. If you come up with a list of things that
>> don't work, we might be able to fix them.
>
>There are a few things that require me to switch the OS. I'll try to cite
>their description in some past threads to the extent I recollect:
>
>I'll be glad if as many of these as feasible could be resolved, so that I
>don't have to maintain two OSes.

There is a very good list :-)

>At OS level:
>
>HP USB multifunction printer/scanner support:
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2011/11/20/msg009600.html
>(I feel hplip is written in quite Linux specific way. So not sure what's
>the best way out.)
>
>DVD writing, DMA speed error
>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.general/33185

That's not hard (marvell driver support)

>A terminal (such as mlterm) with UTF8 support (also reported upstream,
>though problem seems specific to NetBSD)
>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.general/32618

This does not seem too hard either. You could file a netbsd-specific PR too.

>
>Among applications I have a wish list somewhat like this:
>
>Don't find a good voip client, preferably with CLI:
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2012/04/08/msg010411.html

That's tough. I've been fighting to get linux skype working again.

>I wish to get pyuno to work with either libre or open office
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2012/03/18/msg046959.html

This should be again easy to fix in the package. You can file a PR.

>Framebuffer (for use with applications like fbi) (not sure whether OS
>level issue or a matter of porting fbi to NetBSD)
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-wip-review/2012/02/26/msg001369.html

ok.

>Java plugin for firefox (not so critical though)
>http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=45663

I had this working at somepoint. I will take a look again.

>Also wish these wip packages become usable soon:
>- Google chrome browser
>- libreoffice for 6.0
>- virtualbox

Yes..

For me the hardest now is the USB stuff and VOIP.

christos