Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 03:38:24 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0602030138n1e699c18nd5e5cfea75f3c1a3@mail.gmail.com> 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 2/3/06, Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> 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), 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 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. > That's the one of the thing I hate about big ports. You build say X.org 6.8.0, next week it's X.org 6.8.0_1 arrgg! Don't get me started with KDE!
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