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From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0-Release problems and praise
Date: 29 Jan 1995 02:06:27 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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References: <NICKEL.95Jan27003802@toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de>
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Not that it is any solace to you but:
In article <NICKEL.95Jan27003802@toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de>,
nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) writes:
|> - The systems seems a little fragile in other respects, too. Sudden
|> crashes are moderately common. I didn't investigate them further
|> yet.
It is possible to have very robust performace with 2.0, depending
on what you do with it. It is my primary development platform
10 hours a day, 5-6 days a week, for weeks on end, and (after
fixing PPP) I don't have *any* crashes. And I beat it to heck
with compiles, X, and net traffic. But, like I said, it depends
on what you do with it.
|> - When returning from X, the cursor is gone. (OK, the HGC-1280 is
|> strange for sure, but this did not happen with 1.1.5.1.)
I went to the trouble of compiling the prior verson of X11 on
FreeBSD 2.0. I don't think R6 is yet as ``mature'' as R5 was.
It takes about 20 patches before it is really solid, and they
are only at patchlevel 6 (I think). ;-)
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