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Re: [trinity-devel] Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 00:56:12 +0200
On Monday 04 of June 2018 23:42:36 gregory guy wrote:
> Le Sun, 3 Jun 2018 14:31:32 -0700,
>
> Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@...> a �crit :
> > On 06/03/2018 01:30 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2018 schrieb Jimmy Johnson:
> > >> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD seems to be abbandonware. "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
> > >> is a discontinued GNU variant released by the Debian project."
> > >> Trinity GNU/TFreeBSD, sounds interesting to me. :)
> > >
> > > Actually TDE on FreeBSD works quite nice :-)
> > >
> > > There are ony 2 things I have not working right now:
> > > - Shutting down the computer from TDE logout - but that's a feature
> > > I never use, I configured every notebook to shut down on lid close.
> > > - storage media are not mounted correctly via HAL. This may or may
> > > not be a problem of my configuration, as I have "automount"
> > > installed for handling my storage media, but I think I have to look
> > > at the code and figure out what goes wrong (I'll post what goes
> > > wrong later - when I understand what actually happens).
> > >
> > > Nik
> >
> > Hi Nik, It's been a longtime since installing freebsd, at that time I
> > installed a few different bsd's, after your post I started reading
> > release notes and comparing other bsd's and it looks like freebsd is
> > the way to go when the time comes that I stop testing debian/devuan
> > and settle on a single distro, at that time ease of installation will
> > not be a factor as it is now, also Slackware is another option to
> > consider.
> >
> > Thank you,
>
> Some people have made packages and/or build scripts for Slackware
> over time, here are those I've been aware of:
>
> - http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_introduction
> - https://sourceforge.net/projects/tde-slackware
> - http://www.inpito.org/trinity.php
>
> Regards.
> @+
>

Currently, Ray Vine seems to be the most active on TDE for Slackware. 
Formerly Thorn Inurcide, but his account disappeared from Github.

That's why I made a mirror of Ray-V repository.

https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/SlavekB/tde-packaging-slackware

Cheers
-- 
Sl�vek