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Date:      Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:18:15 +0800 (WST)
From:      David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
To:        Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Release Schedule for 2006
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0512182205440.15039@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de>
References:  <20051217120101.BBEDB16A440@hub.freebsd.org> <43A45789.7080601@ywave.com> <20051217234448.GA68713@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de>

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Uwe,

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:44:48PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > It looks like in the course of writing your long email you forgot to
> > describe any of the problems you are having.
>
> I don't know his exact problems either, but I could name you a few
> examples that currently reduce the fun of using FreeBSD:
>
> - The sound sytem is broken in FreeBSD in all 5.x and 6 versions, and I
>   would like to listen to a few mp3-files from time to time.

If I was at work and I got a comment or a phone call like this, I would
usually sigh heavily and, in a voice dripping with sarcasm, ask the exact
same question that I'm going to ask you:

How exactly is it broken?

Actually, you should probably take it to -questions.

>  <snip other fairly vague descriptions>
> - Keeping the system and the ports up to date gets more and more time
>   consuming and risky (especially when compared to an "apt-get update &&
>   apt-get upgrade"). For example, the last devel/pear update in the
>   ports crashed my PHP installations on 2 development machines (still no
>   clue how to fix this).

I don't use PEAR, but wasn't there something in UPDATING about it?

David Adam
zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
UCC Wheel Member
(who does plenty with apt, too, and will stick with the ports system
thank you very much.)




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