Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:59:41 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree Message-ID: <436E6EBD.6070408@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <ZhqaDxv9wJ@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> References: <20051106.131413.122956532.yasu@utahime.org> <1131176568.3960.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051106.131413.122956532.yasu@utahime.org> <op.szszvnn89aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <ZhqaDxv9wJ@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org>
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Dirk Meyer wrote: > Jeremy Messenger schrieb:, > > >> But, we will accept any patch that fix for FreeBSD 4.x as long it doesn't >> break with FreeBSD 5.x, 6.x and 7.x. There is no reason to keep FreeBSD >> 4.x for desktop. >> > > Well well, hold the horses .... > There are still a dozens regression in 5.x > - some hardware does not boot 5.x > - vimum/gvinum ist not working with 4.x volumes > - and performaces is a nightmare on atapi harddisks > - em0 gigabit ethernet solws down to 40kb/s > - yacc is broken in the base. > ... and more to detect > > So far about 11 of 30 istalled machines were broken on update. > > Keep in mind that 5.4 was the first "stable" release of 5.x. > But it has not reached the quality of 4.x > Have you tried 6?
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