Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 1st Nov 2003 19:40 UTC
Robert Watson posted another bi-weekly version of the FreeBSD 5.2 open issues list, slightly restructured. At this time, there are four "show stopper defects" listed: panics when building ata-raid arrays, ATAng crashdump causes disk corruption, pipe/VM corruption on Alpha, and lingering PSE instability. There are only 5 issues left of on the "required features" list: KSE support for sparc64, KSE support for alpha, Fine-grained network stack locking without Giant, MAC framework devfs path fixes, and ACL_MASK override of umask support in UFS.
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Anonymous (IP: ---.satx.rr.com) - Posted on 2003-11-02 00:57:26
i don't have a dual cpu system....is there anything that a newbie would miss by using 4.9?
New compiler which should improve performance, prelinking, improved hardware support, native threading which in some but not all cases will improve responsiveness even in pseudo-SMP, that is, hyperthreading capable CPU's.
What I am looking forward to is 5.3 when the fine grainess is more complete and Opteron port is bought on board as a mature first class citizen.
Regarding the Opteron, the one thing I am interested in is the move by AMD to produce a multi-core Opteron in 2005, which should prove a very interesting thing to have on the market, especially for people like me who like "killing a flea with a canon".
Kingston (IP: ---.home.cgocable.net) - Posted on 2003-11-02 01:14:39
Just a side note, I prefer KDE, but I've found it to be (sadly) broken in a few minor, yet irritating places (I have filed the appropriate reports) so if you want a usable desktop system out of the box, use Gnome 2 instead.
Just regarding KDE and GNOME. I found on FreeBSD 4.8 that when I compiled GNOME 2.2, when I selected text from the terminal the whole desktop would freeze for around 15seconds then suddenly start working, on the other hand, when I use KDE, I haven't seen any of that strange behaviour.
Has this issue been corrected in 2.4 or does it still plague it? regarding Mozilla, are they going to one day clean up the DNS resolving code in is so that it doesn't grind to a halt when opening up multiple tabs and access more than 1 site at a time? I've heard of the complete rewrite that is currently at the Mozilla CVS head, however, I was hoping that some of the bugginess has been fixed. The strange part is that I have not noticed this behaviour in Konqueror or Opera.