merges, commit rights and other OSes

[Christian Thalinger]

Hi (mostly Greg)!

I wanted to ask at what intervals a merge with upstream is done?  I
guess it's just a matter of spare time and actually doing it.  Maybe I
could help with that task, but then I'd need commit rights.

Furthermore it would be nice to integrate some patches to be able to
build on Linux and Solaris out-of-the-box (again).  This would be very
helpful for the MLVM project, as it currently is based on the bsd-port.

-- Christian