Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:25:01 +0100 From: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release Schedule for 2006 Message-ID: <200512181525.01686.freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de> References: <20051217120101.BBEDB16A440@hub.freebsd.org> <20051217234448.GA68713@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de>
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On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:02, Uwe Laverenz wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:44:48PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > It looks like in the course of writing your long email you forgot to > > describe any of the problems you are having. > > I don't know his exact problems either, but I could name you a few > examples that currently reduce the fun of using FreeBSD: > > - The sound sytem is broken in FreeBSD in all 5.x and 6 versions, and I > would like to listen to a few mp3-files from time to time. Define broken? I put snd_ich_load="YES" into /boot/loader.conf, nothing in the kernel and it just works. Listening to SomaFM's Groovesalad via mpg123 as I type. > - Keeping the system and the ports up to date gets more and more time > consuming and risky (especially when compared to an "apt-get update && > apt-get upgrade"). For example, the last devel/pear update in the > ports crashed my PHP installations on 2 development machines (still no > clue how to fix this). That's independant of -stable/-current or any FreeBSD release for that matter, but if you have a PR to look at... -- Melvyn Sopacua freebsd.stable@melvyn.homeunix.org FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE Qt: 3.3.5 KDE: 3.4.3
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