my-workstation (was: Re: Open source in goverment)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2002-09-03 01:00 +0000, Athanasios Sidiropoylos wrote:
>
> Giati... ena mixanima me linux h BSD .... einai diskolo sto na to
> stiseis men. Apo eki kai pera omos. Afou mpoune oi sxetikes
> efarmoges sto desktop kai ta menou tou KDE h tou GNOME h kapoiou
> allou windows manager... Den diaferei ousiastika se tipota apo ta
> windows. Apo thn meria tou xristh. Xmmm diafarei.... sto oti den
> peta mple o8ones... 8-))

Xtes ekana ena endiaferon peirama.  Esbhsa ola to third-party
programmata (ports kai packages) pou eixe sthmena sto FreeBSD mou meta
apo mia anaba8mish tou GCC[1] kai dokimasa mia idea pou eixa kairo
alla den eixa eukairia na tin elegkso.  Na ftiajo ena meta-port[2], pou
to idio den exei dika tou arxeia na sthsei, alla kanei 'depend' apo
ola ta sinithismena programmata pou thelo na sthno sto PC mou.

Thn idea thn phra apo ena uparxon port, pou uparxei pano apo ena xrono
kai legetai misc/instant-workstation.  Kai arxika antegrasa akribos ta
idia arxeia pou eixe to instant-workstation, kanontas liges mono
allages.  Tora, meta apo ligous peiramatismous kai kamposo diabasma
gia ta Makefile twn ports, exo ftiaksei kati pou mporo na po aneta oti
den tha einai duskolo na to parametropoihsei kapoios[3].

Tora pleon, mporo na anaba8miso ola ta paketa mou xoris na anisixo, me
mono liges entoles:

	# pkg_delete -f '*'
	# cd /usr/ports/misc/my-workstation
	# make install

Kai na eimai sigouros oti otan teleiosei uparxei kai to Vim, kai to
GNU Emacs, kai to Bash, kai to Pine, to Mutt, to GPG, ola ta ergaleia
pou ego xrhsimopoio.  Fusika, metaglottismena me tis *dikes* mou
protimiseis, kai optimized gia to mhxanhma *mou*.

Auto, pou na xtupietai den mporei na to kanei POTE enas xrhsths twn
Windows.  Tora, exontas sosei auto to port sto HOME mou, mporo na
sthso ta ergaleia pou xrhsimopoiw sinithos se opoiodhpote FreeBSD apo
3.x kai pano, xoris na katso na ksanapsakso ena-ena ti ru8miseis eixa
kanei, h na kathomai na psaxno th seira me thn opoia prepei na ta
sthso gia na mh mou spasoun ta neura.

LONG LIVE OPEN-SOURCE :)

- Giorgos

[1] H kainouria ekdosh tou GCC sto FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT einai apo xtes
    h 3.2.1 opws fainetai parakato, kai merika apo ta ergaleia einai
    binary incompatible me prohgoumenes ekdoseis.  Opote ola ta
    programmata eprepe na ksanaginoun compile, etsi ki allios.

[2] Dokimaste to, opoios exei FreeBSD, katebazontas to port apo th
    selida http://www.FreeBSD.org/~keramida/my-workstation.html
    Katebaste to my-workstation-1.0-port.tar.gz kai aposumpieste to
    ston katalogo /usr/ports/misc/.   Ustera diabaste to Makefile mesa
    ston katalogo /usr/ports/misc/my-workstation kai peite mou poso
    duskolo sas fainetai na ftiajete xrhsimopoiwntas auto to port san
    "template" ena diko sas my-own-workstation.

[2] Xoris na ksanakanei tin idia douleia, fusika.  An einai na kserei
    o allos ekato Makefiles ti lene mesa prin sthsei to 'workstation'
    tou, mas phre kai mas shkose...

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