From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 24 12: 1:52 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from 1Cust198.tnt2.washington.dc.da.uu.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A5F14F2A; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 12:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 15:01:42 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Doug Rabson Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/objformat Makefile In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > It's cool. I was just catching up with -hackers, reading the threads > > on GLIDE (and wishing XFree86 3.9.X/4.X was out so I could use my TNT...) > > and noticing that gasp was only in libexec, with no link. Perhaps > > I'll trade my TNT for a friend's V3, and try out GLIDE :) > > You don't need XFree 3.9 to run OpenGL on your TNT. Just install 3.3.5 and > find an appropriate glx.so to go with it. There were some port skeletons > floating around which you can use to build one. I recall porting NVidia's "GLX 0.99" to FreeBSD in an afternoon, and I liked it a lot. The problem is that this is slow because of the general ad-hocity of the whole "solution". I'm also not willing to go back to XFree86 3.[ -lt 9].X, since 3.9.1[56], so far, have been faster and smaller than any version I've used before. The new X, even if only "alpha", is IMHO almost production ready. It's kinda funny when I think about it... FreeBSD 4.0 faster and more stable (definitely not smaller ;) than 2 or 3, and has been that way for a while, but is not released as more than something claimed to be "alpha" quality; the XFree86 situation certainly seems to be exactly the same. There's the lack of certain drivers, but that's not an issue for (I would say) most people. It may be just me, but I would venture to say we could both (as collective projects) work out better release schedules by using just one LOD, adding features to one release when appropriate, stabilizing them, then making another release... but I'm probably missing something large which would change my view of that ;) > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message