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Date:      Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:07:13 -0400
From:      Ajtim <lumiwa@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Johannes Meixner <xmj@chaot.net>
Subject:   Re: [CFT] Replace Fedora 10 with CentOS 6.5 as Base Linux distro.
Message-ID:  <2139156.Sm9KXYJibZ@lumiwa.farms.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140309114429.9b571374615a7268b9b4fc85@yamagi.org>
References:  <20140306131629.GC15325@mx12.chaot.net> <20140309114429.9b571374615a7268b9b4fc85@yamagi.org>

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On Sunday 09 March 2014 11:44:29 Yamagi Burmeister wrote:
> Hello,
> thank's for your hard work. :) I gave it a try today. Installation
> (into a clean chroot) was unproblematic. While I didn't test Skype
> or Flash I can confirm that several Linux games are now running out
> of the box without manual upgrading of libraries like libstdc++ or
> libc.
> 
> Regards,
> Yamagi
> 
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:16:29 +0200
> 
> Johannes Meixner <xmj@chaot.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been working on replacing the base linux distribution (currently
> > rusty old Fedora 10) with CentOS 6.5, likewise for about two dozen
> > non-base ports - mostly requirements of either net-im/skype4 or
> > www/linux-c6-flashplugin11.
> > 
> > I mentioned that before on the -emulation@ mailinglist and got very
> > helpful
> > feedback.
> > 
> > As I've run out of issues to fix and would like to reach a wider audience
> > for these ports, I'd appreciate if you could help me test it some more.
> > 
> > To do that, you can either:
> > * download the txz from http://xmj.me/freebsd/linux-ports.txz
> > * download the diff from http://xmj.me/freebsd/linux-ports.diff.xz
> > 
> > * clone my git repo; https://github.com/xmj/linux-ports/ (preferred)
> > 
> > and copy/apply them to your portstree.
> > 
> > In order to get either Skype 4.2.0.13 or Flash running, you can follow the
> > instructions listed on
> > 
> > https://github.com/xmj/linux-ports/blob/master/README.md
> > 
> > I hope they're by now sufficient to allow you to follow them "blindly". If
> > not, I appreciate feedback here on the mailing list as well as
> > Issues/Pull requests.
> > 
> > Best regards and have fun testing,
> > 
> > Johannes

Thanks from me too. It works perfect on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE (amd64) installed 
on iMac 11,1. Also Flash plugin works great.
Thank you.
 
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ajtiM
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