Thank you Erich :) ok, so "FreeBSD release" is the version of the kernel and not a labelling for the collection of all the software.
For Linux major distros there usually is a labelling for the collection of the software, independent of the kernel version. On Linux I usually install binaries for the base system and desktop environment, but for important software, in my case it's audio, compiling from source is very important. The author of the snd_hdspe driver for FreeBSD seems to need testers. It seems to be that nobody ever tested if ADAT is working and I'll test it. OTOH I suspect bug fixes for the driver have to be added by recompiling the kernel or at least the driver for the kernel, so I still could use binaries for the applications. Since audio on FreeBSD seems to be a niche, I wonder if it's more promising, to go the source or to go the binary rout. I suspect if it's impossible or at least less good to mix binaries and from source build software for FreeBSD, I should chose to build from source. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
