From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 04:13:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05C8C59 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:13:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm10.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm10.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAAFB8FC12 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.49] by nm10.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Dec 2012 04:13:39 -0000 Received: from [217.146.189.99] by tm2.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Dec 2012 04:13:39 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp115.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Dec 2012 04:13:39 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1355976819; bh=KKlRu3zNWPQtzniQH+BQD4nusDcfUInrWDZid2MVKjc=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=5uJBip0LiE0OYlVP9HJ2d8CDL2Z1mZZ9pMdiJJE/3W97eu4hcBWCZeCW9puQxTSk1ZtYSJOE0N4CTj/sRf6lCQXzzGYYhx+/+TxQ752PAhmBvRPEPvsV/li7jlQ7Kx/tIoS/dZEfP06cpFa2JIg0sRFAnlYxCUJX6MBjEqo69ds= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 805907.6636.bm@smtp115.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 4irYS8sVM1lgXV973oxdC3rlT22kk5VBpD4kgL20vXuz7Cx lowog.SaYPnbgjS1qIWbMo5BIhsm.fIQB4_ukKK.DI53Y2oHdpNxSnlVUBy2 UJqL49FuSMBJKF.rNe0UBcNJhLcMYYLNscPrpclcvKksk11yiGEJFz3Y4.yz eGhdJYN4TLTaKu0hGxCNDgCVn813QCQ1WZYMEAvPBgS4OimHqHp5r915ialE m3qVPimC_XVmw7nJBILkv1HcGmY.i13eTpoWD7SeemYsKdK1P2y.3_46tbpJ hMNGjhpQg9wEZNctdssgBJJYPkIHYHypWQlQoTW4u17MhisrQf0CAoovgX0f Xnr18mWUWCdMJOdWgF.S2NzpPwDnofnmjlZADxHKXM.2WY2AB_KDtcsLgeEL pTIxQiGi7YbmWoRzgAJKDefST3bXWcW0xYczt5RA- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [85.182.25.217] (ralf.mardorf@85.182.25.217 with login) by smtp115.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Dec 2012 20:13:39 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1355976819.2501.368.camel@q> Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20121220091216.40d1644b@X220.ovitrap.com> References: <1355852561.2501.10.camel@q> <20121218185757.f10640e0.freebsd@edvax.de> <1355933062.2501.19.camel@q> <1355936956.2501.72.camel@q> <20121220091216.40d1644b@X220.ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:13:41 -0000 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