From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 10:43:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6AE37B401; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:43:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEAD43E91; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:43:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from mailgate.nlsystems.com ([62.49.251.130] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 186xo2-000Drl-0W; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:43:06 +0000 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9UIh0gu023899; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:43:01 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:43:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: John Baldwin Cc: clark shishido , , Raymond Kohler Subject: Re: questions about the state of current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021030184149.B23855-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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