From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 11:45:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E94F37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:45:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ruminary.org (chiku.ruminary.org [216.218.185.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C76F43E9E for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@ruminary.org) Received: by ruminary.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5AF0E22E13; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:45:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:45:12 -0800 From: clark shishido To: Raymond Kohler Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about the state of current Message-ID: <20021029194512.GA58126@ruminary.org> References: <2570443.1035916854787.JavaMail.wshttp@emss03g01.ems.lmco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2570443.1035916854787.JavaMail.wshttp@emss03g01.ems.lmco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message