Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Fri Feb 3 01:24:47 PST 2006


On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:01 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper schrieb:
>>> Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case),  
>>> there
>>> should be a noticeable difference.
>>
>> The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile
>> all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested  
>> both: 6.9
>> took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 machine
>> with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006).
>
> Heh :-)
>
> But the advantage *should* be that you don't need to recompile all of
> that every major upgrade. I don't know what will become of that ideal
> though, only time will tell I guess.
>
> --Stijn
>
> -- 
> MY HATE OF D02 KNOW NO LIMIT
> 	-- A Silent Wail, http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php? 
> s=&threadid=31914

I know it took a while to compile everything, but it seems like this  
release is much better than the 6.8.x releases.
-Garrett


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