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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    I hear you. Nowadays, I use minimal Qt for GUI development only. And that's my only use for C++. I can't wrestle with ABI incompatibilities, whims of compilers. And and top of that the standards committee has embarked on very rapid refresh cycle. Not sustainable. All said and done, other GUI...
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    The official installer from CMake for Windows doesn't seem to have any python dependency. That's the official installer. IIRC it is there in Linux however (have to check that on a Debian based SBC). So, from where does this whole kitchen sink approach has encroached the FOSS world, I have no...
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    I don't think you even understand what you are talking about. Everything I said is related. I already use FreeBSD as a secondary desktop. Thank you. Quality of development tools drive platform adoption, not the other way around.
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    Agreed with the Doxygen vs Sphinx thing. IMHO, even with all good things with Sphinx, that's strange choice for a build chain that is primary used by C/C++ community. Hope it stays optional.
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    See there. You don't seem to understand the issue. I build my desktop from scratch. I use my desktop for development work. I don't require Python and any of the interpreted runtimes. If I start changing the Makefiles that came with the ports, then it will bring the whole question of using the...
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    Whoa. Seems like a lot of ruffled feathers. Sincerest apologies if it meant personally to some of you. Maybe this was wrong thread to complain about (sharing my frustration) about the state of radio interfaces in FreeBSD. FreeBSD is better suited for embedded space. It will take a fraction of...
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    That's the answer I expected.
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    Excellent. Hope it is worthy of 21st century. Could you care to send me a brief write up on how to set up a BLE 5 mesh on top of FreeBSD (take latest), with your recommendation of a BlueTooth 4.1+ adaptor? I will pay you for your services, whatever you charge per hour.
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    So, another one out of the woodwork. Send me your shipping address buddy. I will send you a rtwn device and an ARM based SBC of your choice. You get it working. I will handle the shipping. And. Since you felt compelled to jump. Did you care to check the BlueTooth support? Missed the word...
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    First is of all does this forum has any rule against uncalled for insults. Let me respond back in kind. I always install ports with examples and docs turned off. Why should I have to look into Makefiles? Brush up on your comprehension skills. I may posses programming skills of whatever...
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    Does Desktop have a future on BSD?

    Forget about desktop on FreeBSD. Is FreeBSD run by sane people in the first place? I just reformatted a hard disk that was running the latest FreeBSD. The trigger? Why on earth should the port build for CMake pull in Python? And I checked with a downloaded CMake source tar ball. It just...
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    Solved E-mail wrapping and modern clients

    70 characters per line never is an issue. All SMTP clients are expected to break long content at 70 character mark. However, all POP3/IMAP4 clients are expected to reassemble the received content and then pass it on to the UI component for correct rendering. I have Qt/C++ code doing that...
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    Ubuntu Is Coming to Windows 10

    Microsoft is onto a different game altogether. Unices have a tough time ahead. Being technologically great is just one factor. It has to be combined with consumer grade build and finish and usability. We look for these factors every time we by a technological product. Those with market...
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    Ubuntu Is Coming to Windows 10

    ^^ drhowarddrfine, Anyone developing a UI based software for *NIXes mean testing under a GTK and Qt environments to ensure that it looks and behaves consistently. About OS X, your comments are valid for the first world economy alone. In my part of the world a Macbook costs 3 months worth of...
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    Ubuntu Is Coming to Windows 10

    There is a crucial difference here. It is the availability of the software development tools. I guess most of us did this. Coding on Windows inside Visual Studio, FTP the code, run GCC suite from a SSH session. Iterate till complete. The move is a MS admission that despite Visual Studio being...
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    launchd and systemd

    Only constant thing in life is change. Take a lead and steer the way you would want your platform to evolve. Or someone would pick it and run with it. FreeBSD has potential for so much. If you think it is the perfect system and nobody needs to tinker with it then maybe it has reached its...
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    Ubuntu Is Coming to Windows 10

    Nothing new. Windows NT and later derivatives always provided SUA (Subsystem for UNIX Applications). SUA used to be POSIX compliant. Now the Ubuntu subsystem has a Linuxism smell to it. The reason seems to be their Azure cloud business (very profitable one), which has been attracting Linux as...
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    Will systemd make FreeBSD more popular?

    So, the installer screen is just another screen for you to "wade" through when "you" want a bare install? And who are "us" in your context? System administrator? So, FreeBSD installer must be designed for system administrators alone? And FreeBSD must "pre-assume" your (System administrator)...
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    Will systemd make FreeBSD more popular?

    I'll try an analogy, when it comes to out of the box usefulness. Think of a building with three stories and a basement. Mac OS owns all the three stories (kernel, basic user land tools and specialized tools) and the basement (HW). Visitors allowed only in the top two floors i.e. third party...
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    Will systemd make FreeBSD more popular?

    Lest we go off topic. 1. Windows out of the box - I'm not sure what version of Windows you are using. I've Windows 7 on my corporate laptop (Fujitsu) and Windows 8.1 on my home laptop (HP which dual boots - FreeBSD as the second OS). I never needed to install any driver on either of this...
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