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.
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