From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 2 23:19:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1654716A418 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net (pih-relay08.plus.net [212.159.14.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD6213C442 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:19:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=kestrel.milibyte.co.uk) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JLRdk-0003A5-SY; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:19:16 +0000 Received: by kestrel.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JLRdk-0007HG-3q; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:19:16 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:19:15 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200802022112.28641.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> <20080202231028.P4423@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080202231028.P4423@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802022319.16015.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on kestrel.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 518984e723b05f9156a76f469bef4ed7 Subject: Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:19:19 -0000 On Saturday 02 February 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > After running a 90 hour portupgrade job on my current Duron 1600 based > system > > > I've persuaded myself that a hardware upgrade is due. > > simply use precompiled ones if it's a problem. > anyway - i don't what bloatware you have compiled but on my 1200Mhz > Thinkpad i needed few hours to install things i use. The main culprits are some of the the KDE applications which never seem to have up to date precompiled packages available when I need them. The 90 hour run was using "portupgrade -P" to use packages wherever possible. Some of the ports were very heavy going, with kdepim taking 11 hours to compile. Admittedly it is a lot of bloat but I've never regretted switching from MS Windows to FreeBSD, despite the tedious portupgrades. -- Mike Clarke