From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 31 16:32:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EB937B419; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:32:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g010Wew04479; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 01:32:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 01:32:40 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Murray Stokely Cc: John Baldwin , Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xfree4 by default? Message-ID: <20020101013240.B4434@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20011231174113.O16101@elvis.mu.org> <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:43:19PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > The last time I and others brought this up to Jordan, the tentative plan was to > > switch for 5.0. At this point in the game it is probably a bit late for 4.5, > > however, if you want to head up an effort to get test port builds done after > > the release with 4 as the default and get people to test it out then perhaps a > > switch could be done for 4.6. > > I agree that we should make the switch in -STABLE immediately after > FreeBSD 4.5 is released. Every other x86 Unix I've been exposed to > has been using X4 for over a year. The arguments about older > supported hardware do not hold water any more since X4 supports so > many newer chipsets out of the box that X336 can't handle. Does anybody out there know how well X4 works on the Alpha? Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message