From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 1 21:13:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9787414DCA for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:13:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13247; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:43:08 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 13:43:08 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: FreeBSD & X Cc: chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Jun-99 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Yes, its pretty crashy :( > Even on Linux, I hear. The 1.0 release apparently was only meant to signify > the API freeze, not code stabilization. I gather there was quite a bit of > release pressure coming from folks like RedHat.. Ugh.. damn stupid linux development model at work :( > > I've played with it but I always get sick of it, kill it and do rm *.core > > home directory.. Mind you KDE seemed to be as bad :( > I can't think of any problems I've had running KDE 1.1 or 1.1.1 - it's been > very stable for me. The only thing is that it seems to be fairly > memory-hungry > and my machine (48MB) is swapping a lot more than I'd like. > Mind you, 1.0 was -terrible- - in the first 10 minutes of my using it it ate > my mouse pointer and dumped core twice. Yuck.. well I use Enlightenment and its less fat than KDE :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message