FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

[Alexander Leidinger]

pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:

> - Bad press towards the 5.x series.

If it doesn't mentions 5.3 explicitely, it doesn't apply.

> - phk's axe broke one of my favorite ports and I didn't want to spend 
> another 6 months "fixing" it.

You failed to tell which port you are talking about.

> - I wanted to use XFree86-4 and building it on my own and figuring out the
> library mess later is not an option.

We still have the XFree86-4 port, and AFAIK it still works (everything else
is a bug). You just have to set a variable in make.conf to make it the
default.

> - Although outdated, the downloadable java support package was available
> for 4.x only.

It should work on 5.3-release too. At least there was an effort to get it
working, and AFAIK they succeeded.


The next time just remember: Everything is possible, you just have to ask if
you don't know how to do it yourself.

Bye,
Alexander.

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