From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 16:10:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163FF4FD for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com (mail-pa0-f54.google.com [209.85.220.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D97538FC16 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id bi1so479815pad.13 for ; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:10:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=MvHmA/iiW8VSKiMo59YI3AeRxRKMMWhleXPPBGUvvxU=; b=gGonC48X309H49tP4XPNAqi2laabXJl/zyPKzrb1DHTbt6yboVMrI2ShlJ+QTYfOti tb62RNhExwb/sEQ9P/WSRVcs2yq7xpovXBZ596dCfEa9TQKtx0TUjuUy8Nr2hnXZ2WT+ QR8urif7EOAGwDUGTTaKRjmpdg3AFvYbG4Awv2zVjpW+AXgydnvFQ+nw8snz/N8J2oxK j4dDoQgUf2S2VkwaHNmZM1Z01HnVwrx4qEqdjgEFpWkWHbOG5vK6LqaILYt6JvE5cwp8 PcqEYt5JTSYzz4otAojUVf+Sqj3CQROUg7merZ1N1BlBXGHhy8i9GSDkGmmtoT3T+PF9 K8iA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.247.134 with SMTP id ye6mr4672463pbc.69.1352218249079; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:10:49 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.68.124.130 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:10:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:10:49 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Q168xvrfQMNZcu3Pwx7qsAa1HPE Message-ID: Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-) From: Adrian Chadd To: CeDeROM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:50 -0000 Please file a bug about the intel wifi crash! adrian On 6 November 2012 05:31, CeDeROM wrote: > Hello world! :-) > > After big shock with new organization of 9.0 and some mobilization to > take part in RC I have tested 9.1-RC{1,2,3} and found no bigger issues > so far from user perspective :-) > > Also the installation method is now more familiar than before as I got > used to it - its nice that message is shown in the partitioning > section to remove and create a partition to do a fresh install, which > is not obvious for at first contact. > > I was using RC1 and RC2 on virtual machine, then installed RC3 in > place of my stable system on Dell Latitude E4310 laptop - with normal > usage and hard overload I can see no issues - ext2fs and zfs > partifions are working fine also when serving content for virtual > machines inside virtualbox-ose 4.1.22 :-) > > The initial packages installation is hard because there is no 9.1 > ports directory on the ftp servers to use, so I had to build > portupgrade and then install packages with portinstall -PP. Before I > was using pkg_add -r and portmaster (which is a bit worse than > portupgrade I think because it cannot find any binary packaged > itself). But the first impression is that there are no packages > available to install! > > Also the relase notes documents still use 9.0 numbering... > > > Except some issues with current ports like xfce4 window manager does > not work properly (this might impact release binaries) and fusefs-kmod > does not build with ruby1.9 which are reported already, I might have > some wishlist for future: > > It would be nice to have ext4 natively implemented in the kernel, > because ext2 still seems to be most multiplatform filesystem to share > partitions across different operating systems. Or another solution is > to port new UFS driver for Linux and Windows so we can use BSD > partitions and filesystems on them with no problem :-) > > WiFi Intel driver crashed my system on 9.0, I hope its fixed :-) > > It would be really good to have hardware graphics acceleration for > Intel X3400 chipsets, and the way it does not destroys the native > console because it is very useful for tracing problems... > > If you have any particular requests to test some stuff on this > hardware let me know :-) > > Thank you for your hard work! Best regards :-) > Tomek Cedro > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"