From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 17 12:32:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7528337B4A1 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57F843E3B for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:32:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 182GNK-0000Gi-00; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:32:06 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9HIuh3X032654 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:56:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9HIugfc032653 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:56:43 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: status of current for alpha? Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1034862493.39042.7.camel@jan-freebsd.lan> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jan Lentfer wrote: > can someone tell me about the status of CURRENT/5.0 for alpha? Is it > usable for a desktop machine already? Yes. Well, it depends what requirements you attach to a "desktop machine". I wouldn't hold my breath for KDE/GNOME/Mozilla to work or even build. However, I have been using 5.0-CURRENT for its entire lifetime on my "desktop" alpha. There were some rough times during the first six months of this year, but since then it has stabilized, at least for my configuration. > Worth upgrading now? That I can't judge. I think -CURRENT right now is primarily for early adopters and people who want to fix things. > I wouldn't mind dealing with minor bugs as long as the system stays > usable. I only have one alpha so I can only do work OR testing ;-), but > wouldn't mind helping to squeeze out some minor problems. There is a world of breakage waiting to be discovered and fixed in the ports tree, both related to -CURRENT and related to alpha. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message