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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:02:54 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?
Message-ID:  <20090811070254.GA1247@gothic.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <78871850@bb.ipt.ru>
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:53:57PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:18:50 +0200 Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:22:47PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, as for fc4 ports, Fedora Core 4 is unmaintained for
> > > a long time and there is no hope to get an updated version.
> > > The same seems to happen with f8 port.
> 
> > This is annoying cause it means default linux_base under 7.X is a "no
> > way" in future: I mean when some linux apps will be updated people using
> > 7.X and default linux_base may face up to issues.  And on another hand I
> > understood that some missing sysctl calls etc. prevents the switch to
> > f10 under 7.X.  So what is the good solution for the future?
> 
> As Sean has said 7-STABLE is in a good state to use -f10- ports.
> However, even Fedora 10 distros have not been updated so far...
> If you need a workstation with modern linuxulator consider trying
> 8.x. Write here what is not working and we'll try to overcome it.
>

Well I'm not thinking about me but more about people who don't want to
struggle with various fc4, f8 and f10 bits to make their apps working.
In fact I'd like to have one "official" voice regarding this problem and
follow it for example in our Handbook.
Is there any project in switching linux-base from fc4 to f10 on 7.X
branches?

-- 
Marc



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