From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 18 14:25:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EA716A41F for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:25:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org) Received: from sarevok.lan.melvyn.homeunix.org (i153153.upc-i.chello.nl [62.195.153.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E6943D45 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:25:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org) Received: by sarevok.lan.melvyn.homeunix.org (Postfix, from userid 100) id D5E3B11437; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:25:01 +0100 (CET) From: Melvyn Sopacua To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:25:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051217120101.BBEDB16A440@hub.freebsd.org> <20051217234448.GA68713@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de> In-Reply-To: <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512181525.01686.freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org> Subject: Re: Release Schedule for 2006 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:25:03 -0000 On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:02, 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. Define broken? I put snd_ich_load="YES" into /boot/loader.conf, nothing in the kernel and it just works. Listening to SomaFM's Groovesalad via mpg123 as I type. > - 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). That's independant of -stable/-current or any FreeBSD release for that matter, but if you have a PR to look at... -- Melvyn Sopacua freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE Qt: 3.3.5 KDE: 3.4.3