Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 20:41:24 +0100 From: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> To: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@myrealbox.com> Cc: Jeff Frederick <jfrederick@novell.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Understanding FreeBSD Message-ID: <HJz1RFBkFV68EwpJ@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <0205201502140H.00345@Rozinante> References: <sce8d0ce.069@prv-mail20.provo.novell.com> <0205201502140H.00345@Rozinante>
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Someone, quite probably Marcia Barrett Nice, once wrote: >On Monday 20 May 2002 11:32 am, Jeff Frederick wrote Understanding FreeBSD: >| 2. Wacom Tablet support. I'm gathering that there is no native Wacom >| Tablet driver, mostly for X. I've found that there is an OpenBSD driver >| and this it should work for X and FBSD. Is anyone out there using that >| driver?? Comments? > >No clue. Searching freebsd.org gave me no results for 'wacom tablet' or >'wacom'. You might try asking this on -questions. I believe the bigger issue is whether or not X will support it. I think I heard it did but that information comes without a money back guarantee. :-) >Regarding the FBSD source itself, if you use the tag RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE you >will get precisely the code on your 4.5 CDs. As that wouldn't help much, you >are more likely to want RELENG_4_5 (contains security patches etc. for 4.5 >release) or RELENG_4 (-STABLE). RELENG_4_5 is the best option. Whilst -stable is incredibly stable it's not perfect and all the docs say so. Once you're a bit happier with FreeBSD then move up to -stable, and eventually -current, but don't get carried away just yet. >| 5. Release 4.5 vs. 4.6 and X3 vs. X4. I guess 4.6 is going to be out >| soon. Will it actually install X4? If so, would it be recommended to >| wait the couple of weeks to get that vs. installing 4.5?? >As you've already got the 4.5 CDs and you seem to understand the idea of >CVSup, I'd say install 4.5 and see what you think. You can always update >later. (personally, I have one of the 4.3 CDs put out by WindRiver that I >use for most of my initial installations and then update from there) I'd actually advise not installing X as part of the distro. I find it a lot easier to install a basic system and then add things like that through ports/packages. If you do that then you'll also find it easier to upgrade to X4.2 (which I'm pretty sure is in the ports collection already. Install 4.5, CVSUP your ports and then install X4.2) Just what I find easier. >On the other hand, you might >want to keep in mind that your first installation is usually poorly done, >install 4.5 now and see what you think on the assumption that you will either >have to re-install or upgrade anyway. I think most people take a couple of tries before they're happy :-) -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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