Build FreeBSD on Linux for Alternative architecture.

[astyle]

well it seems, that even if they don't have a knowledge, today what we have of documentation, on the internet and people available to work, and today the Russian scientists, don't have the mentality of the soviet union.

That mentality was heavy on theory, but light on practice. Soviet-era elevators were quite crappy.

 

[arrowd]

Interested hackers can now play with Elbrus QEmu emulator on FreeBSD without the need to run any proprietary closed-source Linux binaries.

arrowd's blog - Setting up a FreeBSD playground for Elbrus2000 architecture

 

[shkhln]

Curiously enough, the person writing this new open-source compiler backend exclusively uses the GitHub's web UI for committing (that is, the guy edits the code directly in the web browser and, no, it's not some kind of web IDE). I don't know about you, but that scares the shit out of me.

Might be a workaround for an overly paranoid firewall/proxy setup on the day job, I suppose…

 

[astyle]

Might be a workaround for an overly paranoid firewall/proxy setup on the day job, I suppose…

Unless that kind of thing is specifically OK to do on the day job (Like AMD having in-house engineers working on Linux drivers for their GPU's), I'd think it's a good idea to rethink the workflow.

 

[rigoletto@]

Likely the code is developed in private and then just copied/pasted to GitHub to the public.

 

[shkhln]

I just remembered the aforementioned web UI editor doesn't allow making changes to multiple files in a single commit (it's basically intended for minor Readme edits, anything else is abuse), so that's probably just the file uploading feature. Not as worrisome, but still kind of meh.