Re: GSoC Project: Replacement for Apropos

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

Oh Cool :)

I will try installing vmware or some other virtual machine that allows
setting up ssh with guest OS. I don't think qemu supports this :-(


Thanks & Regards
Abhinav Upadhyay




On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Marc Balmer <mbalmer%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
>> Thanks for the pointers regarding the build tools used and the coding
>> guidelines.  I will be using C for creating this utility, so that's no
>> concern.
>>
>> I have installed NetBSD on my hard disk as well as on QEMU with Linux
>> as the host OS. I am currently trying to play and configure the
>> development environment inside qemu, so that I can repeat the same on
>> the actual installation of netbsd and switch to it permanently, as for
>> some strange reasons I am not able to make my system dual boot.
>>
>> I installed gnome ,  I ran gdm on the terminal, it started gnome, but
>> after logging in it gave an error, and went back to the terminal.
>>
>> Rather than troubling you with the problem, I want to know how do you
>> guys do development usually ? What desktop environment you use and are
>> there any documentation for this ?
>
> I am using a Mac Book Pro Laptop, running Mac OS X.  I run different
> NetBSDs inside VMware Fusion and use BBEdit to edit files over sftp
> directly in the virtualized NetBSD machine.  I usually have several ssh
> connections to the virtual machine open, to start compiler and such, but
> the editing is done on Mac OS X using BBEdit.
>