Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:56:09 -0400 From: "Steve Brown" <freebsd@prayforwind.com> To: <lawmay@ki.se> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie: STABLE vs RELEASE? Message-ID: <000e01c1e7dc$413e2e20$660f129f@bro5637> References: <3cc05d4f.66f4.0@mbox.ki.se> <20020419144507.A700@rochester.rr.com>
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> > 4. The reason why I have been looking at precompiled applications is that my > > machine is relatively slow (Pentium 133MHz with 64 MB RAM, 1.5GB harddrive). > > Am I correct in assuming that large applications like XFree 4.2.0, KDE 3.0, > > Emacs 21.x, etc would take forever to compile on that machine? Mozilla built in 6 1/2 hours, KDE took 30 hours(successfully) on my 325MHz PII with 64M RAM (4.5-RELEASE with softupdates turned off) And I've not done it, but I believe the way for you to go is to install a release without XFree86, then get XFree86 4.2.0 using the ports tree. I believe I read somewhere on the FreeBSD site that the port source dependancies are "guaranteed" to be in sync only on a release. (applications A, B, ...n which all depend on library C , all depend on the same version of library C). This makes adding/removing applications a whole lot easier for us non-gurus. I suspect that's why they advise newbies to start with a release. BTW, installation over the net using the 2 floppy disk procedure works well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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