Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:43:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: clark shishido <clark@ruminary.org>, <current@freebsd.org>, Raymond Kohler <raymond.j.kohler@lmco.com> Subject: Re: questions about the state of current Message-ID: <20021030184149.B23855-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021029145256.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 29-Oct-2002 clark shishido wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:40:53AM -0700, Raymond Kohler wrote: > >> 1) How is the speed compared to stable? I remember it being just too slow some months ago and > >> was wondering how it was improving. > >> > >> 2) Are the random hangs in X fixed yet? I can put up with a few issues (it is current, after > >> all), but that's just too much to bear. > >> > >> 3) Are there any Very Important Packages (mozilla, kde, &c) that won't build or refuse to work > >> right? > >> > > > > I started using current a couple months ago, I just rebuilt the big three > > (world, XFree86, mozilla) last week after the latest gcc import. Speed > > difference with 4-STABLE on a PIII 866 is not very noticable. > > > > If I was reading the threads correctly they trace the X crashes back to > > a floating point error. > > > > I hear kde is broken, mozilla compiled cleanly so some gtk stuff is OK. > > (Sorry I don't use the full gnome suite either). > > > > I lost a filesystem on my current disk a month ago so make sure you > > use current on another disk. > > I compiled kde3 a week or so ago on my laptop running -current and it is > now my new desktop, so I think reports of kde being totally hosed are a > bit exagerated or perhaps dated. Hmm. I compiled it a few days ago and it was quite broken. It died in kdeinit very quickly. I will probably retest after sorting out the X threading problems as I have a hunch this is related. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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