Fedora Core 5 emulation and problems

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Thu, 18 May 2006 11:30:30 +0400):

> On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:00:59 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Wed, 17 May 2006   
>> 15:19:38 +0400):
>
>> > Hey, the good news is that an FC4 port is successfilly running on my
>> > system a couple of days. ;-)
>
>> Great. Do you think we can skip FC3 and go directly to FC4 without
>> breaking anything (no change to the rest of the infrastructure ports
>> like xorg and gtk)?
>
> This is my intention. I'm on tests now. Linux-xorg-libs are already
> form FC4 distro. But there are some ports (i.e. graphics/linux_dri)
> that should be treated with care. Linux_dri is written for XFree and
> should be tested with appropriate hardware.

Linux DRI falls back to software rendering when no appropriate  
environment is found (like on my machine). It is the only port where I  
don't care about the status until we switched to a new default. But  
it's a port which we need to fix after the transition.

> But in general at long jumps, you know, things may happen. ;-)

Yes, but if acroread and skype runs ("productivity applications"), the  
rest ("games") may work too... or can be updated after the change.

Bye,
Alexander.

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