From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qc0-x236.google.com (mail-qc0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::236]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93F737788B for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:09:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-qc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id c9so4778304qcz.13 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:09:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ztqE0Qw/fnmxX6u2r5RdtNMWh2Qev4PrIDv+pQxHfAY=; b=Dm5txN0S/xKcoN4W0XpjVzuv6n/i6udyPDCvQPku8lEyKlYzblxKm3l4Fj4lRACl28 poRQPYCoT/HAyxjqYuutvgO8UAvfDsANH9FEaOQ3WFZClvcz0UeHxhstcICP/Elt/eez 2/7LYvRS+kKka6csELC1CiX/SBCmoVPWkjA2/k6Feb4WjvOEqykPsr/PRsSCBOBONjbF m8RQT6yA/jVIXwQDQgwI8CvF7HEo4hUhR/B3BJbR08emDWQXSdlGs16d8yJX52U4ps4F EEhPxtH1Aojr4pc8jGp6CnhTE/5HsIRln/EWRp1C/p8aLoaED8pI+Rb0dDAJCAa23RN6 Fn9g== X-Received: by 10.140.86.230 with SMTP id p93mr13627547qgd.48.1390068569690; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:09:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.0.101] ([179.236.132.162]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z8sm7954446qed.14.2014.01.18.10.09.28 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:09:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52DAC357.3040400@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:09:27 -0200 From: Cleverson Casarin Uliana User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; pt-BR; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com References: <20140118070132.GA6130@vmailbox.org> <52DAB695.6010401@gmail.com> <877g9xuqsh.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> In-Reply-To: <877g9xuqsh.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] FreeBSD port X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:09:36 -0000 Thank you Chris, I'll investigate the qemu option. In any case, lets hope there appear more human resources to make such other systems more usable as alternatives for the blind in the future. Regards Cleverson Em 18/01/2014 15:46, Chris Brannon escreveu: > Cleverson Casarin Uliana writes: > >> and installing/using an entire OS through SSH is not >> practical. > > First, congratulations to David on getting edbrowse into the ports tree! > > Well, if you just want to try FreeBSD, there are always virtual machines. > Have a look at qemu. It has a curses display driver, which you can > select by passing -curses on the command line. Any text-mode OS should > work. You may have trouble if the OS insists on displaying one of those > silly splash screens. This puts the display into graphic mode and > breaks qemu's curses driver. With Linux, this can usually be gotten > around by passing an appropriate parameter to the kernel at boot. > I've never had any trouble with this when running *BSD under qemu, so I > assume they don't do the splash screen thing? > Serial consoles are also an option. With qemu, you can redirect the > serial port to a TCP listener, so that you can access the serial console > via telnet. Use a Unix-domain socket and socat for greater security. > If your hardware supports hardware virtualization, you can > use qemu with kvm. This is much more performant than plain qemu. It > isn't noticeably slower than running on bare metal. > I've used qemu extensively for many things, including trying out > various flavors of BSD. So if you want to take FreeBSD for a spin > without installing it on actual hardware, this is a great option. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Edbrowse-dev mailing list > Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com > http://lists.the-brannons.com/mailman/listinfo/edbrowse-dev