Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:29 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Subject: Re: 7+ days of dogfood Message-ID: <201302100029.r1A0TT2r046801@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130210000723.GA73630@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:07:23 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 7+ days of dogfood In a long thread started by Peter Wemm on developers@, he described the move/upgrade of the FreeBSD.org cluster to using FreeBSD-10. A part of his description included the need to test top-of-tree under actual real-world conditions. In his words, FreeBSD should "eat its own dogfood." The new installation on FreeBSD.org, of course, would test FreeBSD-10 under (heavy) server load. So, I decided to test FreeBSD-10 under a user desktop condition. In so doing, I upgraded the circa August 2012 FreeBSD-current that ran on my Dell Latitude D530 (which ran rock-solid) to top-of-tree. This included re-installing all ports under the pkgng paradigm. I can only describe this experience as slowly shoving an icepick into my ear channel. *skip the details* My experience is more positive. I've r246552 on a Lenovo T61p amd64 laptop. X works fine with Nvidia card with nvidia-driver-304.64: x11/nvidia-driver and with hald and dbus. firefox-18.0.2,1: www/firefox works fine (so far). I haven't added flash yet. sound seems fine, at least in alienblaster-1.1.0_5: games/alienblaster wireless works ok (I'm not sure, but it seems to show some problems under load. I need to investigate this further) with device iwn # Intel 4965/1000/5000/6000 wireless NICs. device iwn4965fw All this with # cat /etc/make.conf SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS+= -L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD+= -lsasl2 WITH_PKGNG=yes PERL_VERSION=5.16.2 # Anton
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