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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:45:12 -0800
From:      clark shishido <clark@ruminary.org>
To:        Raymond Kohler <raymond.j.kohler@lmco.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: questions about the state of current
Message-ID:  <20021029194512.GA58126@ruminary.org>
In-Reply-To: <2570443.1035916854787.JavaMail.wshttp@emss03g01.ems.lmco.com>
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:40:53AM -0700, Raymond Kohler wrote:
> 1) How is the speed compared to stable? I remember it being just too slow some months ago and was wondering how it was improving.
> 
> 2) Are the random hangs in X fixed yet? I can put up with a few issues (it is current, after all), but that's just too much to bear.
> 
> 3) Are there any Very Important Packages (mozilla, kde, &c) that won't build or refuse to work right?
> 

I started using current a couple months ago, I just rebuilt the big three 
(world, XFree86, mozilla) last week after the latest gcc import. Speed 
difference with 4-STABLE on a PIII 866 is not very noticable.  

If I was reading the threads correctly they trace the X crashes back to
a floating point error.

I hear kde is broken, mozilla compiled cleanly so some gtk stuff is OK.
(Sorry I don't use the full gnome suite either).

I lost a filesystem on my current disk a month ago so make sure you
use current on another disk.

--clark


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