From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 28 01:03:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DD6729F for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E488B1007 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-127-162.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.127.162]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E226A282F0; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:50:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id rBS0ob1p001980; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:50:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:50:37 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Lokadamus Subject: Re: Probs with FreeBSD 10- Beta/ RC and Xorg Message-Id: <20131228015037.bff71cc4.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <52BE044F.6090800@gmx.de> References: <52BDC486.1060901@gmx.de> <20131228061414.2bc6aef3@X220.alogt.com> <52BE044F.6090800@gmx.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:03:16 -0000 On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 23:50:55 +0100, Lokadamus wrote: > Compile xorg from ports needs 2 days to compile on my old P4- 3GHz. This > is not an Option. :( Excuse my question - is this _for real_? I've been using a P4 2 GHz for many years and didn't have such high compile times. Yes, sure, compiling stuff like X.org or OpenOffice may take some hours, even the OS needs few hours, and a kernel half an hour, but TWO DAYS really sounds too high... I've been compiling a FreeBSD v4 OS on a 150 MHz Pentium ("P1") with 64 MB (Megabytes!) RAM once which required almost 24 hours. But the time invested was _well_ invested: When everything was installed, configured, tweaked and tuned, that particular system would run X, WindowMaker, xmms (MP3 player), mplayer (video), Opera (web browser), wget and some new compile jobs _at the same time_ without "skipping audio" - the thing many users of "modern" computers seem to complain when they move a window across the screen - and the web browser and GUI still being fully responsive. >From today's point of view, that sounds like magic. :-) Of course, you're talking about _today's_ X.org which might be much more voluminous than X.org 5 years ago. On the other hand, what about the modularity? X.org isn't a steaming pile of source code anymore, there are many optional parts. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...