Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 01:25:56 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD? Message-ID: <FECEAAC5-3847-4CD6-A654-8572F95BEE3B@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060203080120.GB976@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <43E2E2F1.70206@u.washington.edu> <20060203050813.GA45810@xor.obsecurity.org> <43E2F43B.1000303@u.washington.edu> <43E30BDD.9090005@cs.tu-berlin.de> <20060203080120.GB976@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:01 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote: >> Garrett Cooper schrieb: >>> Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), =20 >>> there >>> should be a noticeable difference. >> >> The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile >> all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested =20 >> both: 6.9 >> took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 machine >> with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006). > > Heh :-) > > But the advantage *should* be that you don't need to recompile all of > that every major upgrade. I don't know what will become of that ideal > though, only time will tell I guess. > > --Stijn > > --=20 > MY HATE OF D02 KNOW NO LIMIT > -- A Silent Wail, http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?=20 > s=3D&threadid=3D31914 I know it took a while to compile everything, but it seems like this =20 release is much better than the 6.8.x releases. -Garrett=
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