Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:39 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 Message-ID: <1355976819.2501.368.camel@q> In-Reply-To: <20121220091216.40d1644b@X220.ovitrap.com> References: <1355852561.2501.10.camel@q> <20121218185757.f10640e0.freebsd@edvax.de> <1355933062.2501.19.camel@q> <CAJ5UdcMNBcDVV88AD6n49awtm7DjjCgNbHcZBZYLK%2BWN4cuPsQ@mail.gmail.com> <1355936956.2501.72.camel@q> <20121220091216.40d1644b@X220.ovitrap.com>
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Thank you Erich :) ok, so "FreeBSD release" is the version of the kernel and not a labelling for the collection of all the software. For Linux major distros there usually is a labelling for the collection of the software, independent of the kernel version. On Linux I usually install binaries for the base system and desktop environment, but for important software, in my case it's audio, compiling from source is very important. The author of the snd_hdspe driver for FreeBSD seems to need testers. It seems to be that nobody ever tested if ADAT is working and I'll test it. OTOH I suspect bug fixes for the driver have to be added by recompiling the kernel or at least the driver for the kernel, so I still could use binaries for the applications. Since audio on FreeBSD seems to be a niche, I wonder if it's more promising, to go the source or to go the binary rout. I suspect if it's impossible or at least less good to mix binaries and from source build software for FreeBSD, I should chose to build from source. Regards, Ralf
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