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Date:      Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:02:58 +0100
From:      Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Release Schedule for 2006
Message-ID:  <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051217234448.GA68713@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20051217120101.BBEDB16A440@hub.freebsd.org> <43A45789.7080601@ywave.com> <20051217234448.GA68713@xor.obsecurity.org>

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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.

- To my surprise it's almost impossible to use the parallel port with
  interrupts ("interrupt storms"), polling mode works...

- wlan is broken, my Thinkpad keeps losing WPA-PSK connection very often
  (probably kern/88793).

- 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).

Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't want to complain, I just wanted to
give you some examples.

Uwe




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