[squeak-dev] Problems Running Squeak On FreeBSD 10.1

B J quarterwavevertical at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 21:24:16 UTC 2014


On 12/5/14, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> On 05-12-2014, at 12:12 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that you probably have installed a VM that was compiled by
>> someone
>> working to support the FreeBSD distribution. Unfortunately we do not
>> currently have a very good process for supporting those distro
>> maintainers, and some of the resulting VMs have problems.
>
> As an example from another OS, Debian takes the vm source from squeakvm.org
> and then carefully breaks it. This was, amongst other things, a cause of a
> big problem for Raspberry Pi Scratch.

<snip>

I've had situations where I've upgraded FreeBSD and PC-BSD, only to
find that the OS went off the rails after I was finished.  The only
way I could solve that was to wipe the hard drive and re-install
everything all over again.


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