Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:15:25 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available Message-ID: <20090426165926.B89549@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <1240696992.55354.50.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1240615421.55354.31.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20090425150558.N89549@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1240696992.55354.50.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>
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On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Ken Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 15:21 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Ken Smith wrote: > > > There is one known issue with 7.2-RC2. We switched from KDE3 to KDE4 > > > > Oh, I'd been kinda hoping that wouldn't happen till after release. I > > guess our KDE folks must reckon it's shaken out enough already now .. > > Yes, I contacted the two people who I was told most directly watch over > the KDE ports and both preferred we shift to KDE4. Fair enough. I've been too busy to follow its progress just lately. > > Will kde3 still be able to be installed from packages? Will it be a big > > deal to prefer staying with kde3 (mostly re older small-memory laptops)? > > It will be available for install from packages through the net (FTP > based install, or one of the other package tools that can be told to > download the packages). I'm afraid I can't fit it on the ISO release > media. No that's fine, thanks Ken; glad to hear kde3 won't be obsoleted yet. > Even with the DVD media we currently have a limit caused by the > tool many of our mirror sites use for mirroring - files larger than 2Gb > cause issues (that's why the DVD image is gzip-ed). We're slowly > working to resolve that. Already got my RC2-bootonly - now all I need is some free time :) Thanks, Ian
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