
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.
"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."
hmmm... Using KDE on FSBD 5.1. I built it from ports, I have all the addons (kdemultimedia, kdeaddons, etc..) but found no broken packages yet. Of course, I don't use _all_ the progs ... but which ones are broken? Its fast and its stable for me at least...