On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 01:54 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon > > unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it. > > Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it > > that way. > > Yep, that's your prerogative. But the next exploit may not get updated > in 6.x.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to upgrade, I just don't have a test box and I just don't want to go through some "hell" to get my laptop to work for work. :-) > There are plenty of improvements to expect, but you'd need to > read the ChangeLogs for details. Which changelogs? Xorgs or the one in portage? I can't seem to find the changelogs for xorg 7.0 in www.x.org. > Addition of the new acceleration > architecture (exa), accelerated indirect GLX, and many fixes to drivers > are just a few. I see, you mean xorg's changelogs. I just looked at the modular x upgrade howto and the wiki, seems pretty decent. But the Block List and the # of packages is just huge :-) What are the caveats during the upgrade? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
