Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:15:26 -0230 From: "Jonathan Anderson" <jonathan@FreeBSD.org> To: "Matthew Macy" <mmacy@nextbsd.org> Cc: "Kevin Oberman" <rkoberman@gmail.com>, "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next Message-ID: <C9DCA8E9-67DA-4870-8AD3-1305B42BA7D5@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1576a3129d6.df449a6798184.3431483148132229583@nextbsd.org> References: <CAGhTqAXdNBTbdvSzBUFaOMY10jEMy6MehNqN%2BFfdZVpZ5Y1Rbg@mail.gmail.com> <439e20fa-6385-68fb-c97e-24705ebd2f94@nomadlogic.org> <157496f7268.ac5eb5ca278618.8741026532558973404@nextbsd.org> <3FEE7DD3-C408-4398-9F0B-5529B2E7A61F@transactionware.com> <1574b8980bc.106a6e9ef306540.4216158444646545056@nextbsd.org> <20160926192637.33f7921b@azsupport.com> <157683d1ec0.11a09775b76996.945490951353894015@nextbsd.org> <20160927031041.31b6f90a@azsupport.com> <157693fc60a.ebf27bd286215.2625530085502855667@nextbsd.org> <20160927033819.2670e3f1@azsupport.com> <20160927015534.GA1345@lonesome.com> <CAN6yY1vPzjvMyc%2Bxxs587EpwgGe6%2BCAdXqYjw66YjZafT4YUfg@mail.gmail.com> <1576a3129d6.df449a6798184.3431483148132229583@nextbsd.org>
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On 27 Sep 2016, at 3:19, Matthew Macy wrote: > So long as 99% of people are duly respectful of the fact that this has > been a great deal of work and that there is more work that lies ahead > we'll be fine. I, for one, am very grateful for this work and try to help with testing where I can. For the past couple of years I've wanted to recommend FreeBSD to students and the people who manage our computer labs, but the lack of support for contemporary graphics was a real blocker while I've Linux uptake grow by leaps and bounds. Thanks to Matt's work, I'm now running FreeBSD on a recent notebook rather than VMs or old hardware from eBay. i915 on drm-next-4.7 has become quite stable and reliable, to the point where I'd recommend it to students escaping Windows once it lands in a release (12.0?). FreeBSD grew out of a university context, and I think that we need university students using it and hacking on it to generate new developers, new companies, etc. Jon -- Jonathan Anderson jonathan@FreeBSD.org
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