Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:52:56 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: clark shishido <clark@ruminary.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Raymond Kohler <raymond.j.kohler@lmco.com> Subject: Re: questions about the state of current Message-ID: <XFMail.20021029145256.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021029194512.GA58126@ruminary.org>
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On 29-Oct-2002 clark shishido wrote: > 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. I compiled kde3 a week or so ago on my laptop running -current and it is now my new desktop, so I think reports of kde being totally hosed are a bit exagerated or perhaps dated. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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