From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 17:56:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0499C106564A for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:56:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BFE8FC16 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so152766eyg.13 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:56:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=jmeNnw9vasKVzfJvPIo8CifGRD8daenntstQX1uGNKI=; b=VCJtlLwr10aSMFj4qu276SlVz6DKRXyXPRdhlqYU3JCbC17XHXSpgcp6mhhMkDalI4 /1hTGrstZIjgW23BKyAF/lV7Fgh23O6Xp0bzqTHybak5wUhAnJkO0UGc3EAWxjbocF4I fKqdpEPfGxfYQ4UZDWmPkngDHP9E4pEyVB360= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tgrjBKGe8J3g2KHl4m1KVZUkiA8B4eIfsmRN1F59yqFxNqRDP8GgRk82tFdyLlxGGq e4BUEBS38BG3ve1NqbbUDwXifL9VIh4Dc324LgVV80GSYqKZD2WR0I8q4AckIEYYoZwo YM5s/dB8aXifodN8dBIZfl+g8UUyOeb64Iogs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.97.70 with SMTP id k6mr305951ebn.75.1301421369231; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.29.83 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:56:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110329172256.GD46127@sputnjik.localdomain> References: <20110329013223.ddca7453.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> <1301391185.71226.36.camel@xenon> <20110329172256.GD46127@sputnjik.localdomain> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:56:09 +0200 Message-ID: From: Christian Walther To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nikola_Pavlovi=E6?= Subject: Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:56:11 -0000 2011/3/29 Nikola Pavlovi=C4=87 : > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: [...] > As others have pointed out NVidia drivers for FreeBSD have been > available for some time, and they work just fine. Yes, thanks for pointing that out, everybody. :) > As far as eye candy goes, I assure you KDE Plasma bells and whistles > (compositing etc.) work just fine even on a 9 year old Pentium 4 w/ 1GB > RAM and an NVidia GeForce 6200. =C2=A0I'm actually amazed how well it wor= ks, > it's faster than XFCE on Slackware was... =C2=A0Weird stuff. O.o (I'm not > really implying anything, just noticing something I didn't expect.) Nice. :) Maybe it's time to give KDE4 another try. Its' graphics performance seems be to have been improved with Release 4.2 anyway (at least I've been told), and my last test was with an early 4.0 release. My wifes' laptop is on Linux for some time now, and I already noticed that nspluginwrapper + flash plugin are stable even after updates.