Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:11:45 -0500 From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com> To: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: -CURRENT in pretty good shape, after all Message-ID: <001201c1bd67$1a490a00$b900000a@brianlaptop> References: <xzp3czsp0vc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020224042210.GC4789@hades.hell.gr> <20020224180426.GA406@fonix.adamsfamily.xx>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Szilveszter Adam" <sziszi@bsd.hu> To: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 1:04 PM Subject: Re: -CURRENT in pretty good shape, after all > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:22:11AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > It does work perfectly nice for me too, here. I've been building worlds > > without a single problem ever since Feb 7, 2002. Oh, and since I like > > living in the edge, I erased my 4-STABLE installation on Feb 10, and > > formatted that partition. Now I use it as /c, a workspace where temporary > > development work is done. > > Well, just to put my "Me too!" here. I have been following 5.x for as > long as it existed and during all this exercise, I have found it to be > fairly useable at all times. There were some bumps along the road, but > nothing that a careful study of this and other mailing lists would not > have solved. In fact, ever since 5.x branched from 4.0 way back when:-) > it was the only installation of FreeBSD that I had on my workstation. > > I wrote my university thesis on this machine, while religiously keeping > up with the latest and greatest -CURRENT source, the box has served as a > dialup and later as an ADSL gateway without problems. Of course, > debugging code has slowed it down at times but that was expected. > > Although I do not consider myself a developer/programmer, I always tried > to report problems in a useful way when found. It is just that I did not > have a lot to do on this front:-) (Maybe I am the kind of user who > should start using -CURRENT in greater numbers? OK, I'm here already:-) > > This machine is a PII-233 UP, with an Intel 440-LX based mobo and only > IDE peripherals. It is no longer "state of the art" or even close, but, > thanks to FreeBSD, it runs as snappy as ever. > > > Thank you all, who have put efforts in making this happen! > > Indeed. It is really refreshing to see that, despite occasional > ramblimngs and otbreaks of flame on the lists, the project really makes > headway, especially looked at from a historical perspective. > > Keep up the good work! > > P.S.: This message is also test to see if the upgrade to the latest > sendmail worked well:-) another "me too" I have had a 5.0 box running continuously for several months, I don't use the box much but I do use it a little at least a few times a day. It just sits there on my cable modem at home and I use it as a samba (pre-3.0beta) server for mp3's at home, or via http/ftp from work. It's been running seti@home since day one, I use it to test ssh and rsync procedures and other miscelaneous things where I need a unix box to try something on and don't want to use a customers machine. I have done a couple buildworlds and buildkernels but only a couple and not in months, but it went without a hitch. I have built a few ports like vnc and samba, again no hitches and again the results have also been running for months. there was a problem with my mouse for a while, I applied a patch from a post on this list, rebuilt and no more mouse problem. all in all, it's been just great for me even though it's a pretty old -CURRENT. oh and the hardware is just a crappy emachine with an amd k6-2 350 (running at 385) that was a desktop win98 machine at a customers that they threw away for being too old and slow. I just put in a new power supply and a little ram and it's been a damned fine freebsd box for me. neven gnome and enlightenment and gimp and netscape et al are fast enough to be useable, although I did disable gnome and E in favor of icewm just on general principle. Brian K. White -- brian@aljex.com -- http://www.aljex.com/bkw/ +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO Prosper/FACTS AutoCAD #callahans Satriani To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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