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From: "Steve Brown" <freebsd@prayforwind.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie: STABLE vs RELEASE?
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:56:09 -0400
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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.


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