Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:50:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.1 date? Message-ID: <14583.19521.791635.880264@onceler.kcilink.com> In-Reply-To: <20000413213504.C7055@speedy.gsinet> References: <20000412183413.A69623@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000413101202.A6605@luna.cdrom.com> <20000413181640.B99705@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000413102553.B6605@luna.cdrom.com> <14582.2028.935360.217820@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000413213504.C7055@speedy.gsinet>
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>>>>> "GS" == Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> writes: GS> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 13:46 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: >> >> One reason not to use 4.0 is that the sound drivers are not >> available for certain sound devices; 4front is not giving out >> 4.0 compatible drivers yet. GS> Just a question: Do you believe that these drivers come sooner GS> from pushing a release through the door? I cannot see the No; I'm just stating the fact that one reason not to run 4.0 right now is that you *LOSE* functionality by doing so. Running 3.4 I get everything working just fine (except one big NFS problem, but I can live with that.) GS> relation between incrementing the release number before time and GS> having drivers available. If 4front hasn't drivers yet, do you GS> expect them to grow from calling something 4.1? I have no idea why 4front is not yet releasing 4.x drivers. They hand-wave about it being a lot of rewriting work. GS> If a product lacks features this important to you, consider not GS> using it at all. If you want some of the new features and still Exactly why I'm not using FreeBSD 4.0. It lacks a feature that is important to me. GS> miss this very one(?) thing, think of replacements. Have a 4.0 GS> box do its work and play the sound somewhere else (ever heard of GS> rplay and other networked sound system? noone ever said a Yes; I used to use NAS when I ran an Xterminal. Now I have everything on my desk, so why would I want another box in this room just to run the sound? Makes no sense. GS> computer must have a noise board built in just to produce some GS> sounds). It has one, so why shouldn't I use it? Makes no sense to suggest using another box just for sound. Besides most apps don't support NAS. Really only XEmacs was what did support it. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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