Release Schedule for 2006

[David Adam]

Uwe,

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:44:48PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > It looks like in the course of writing your long email you forgot to
> > describe any of the problems you are having.
>
> I don't know his exact problems either, but I could name you a few
> examples that currently reduce the fun of using FreeBSD:
>
> - The sound sytem is broken in FreeBSD in all 5.x and 6 versions, and I
>   would like to listen to a few mp3-files from time to time.

If I was at work and I got a comment or a phone call like this, I would
usually sigh heavily and, in a voice dripping with sarcasm, ask the exact
same question that I'm going to ask you:

How exactly is it broken?

Actually, you should probably take it to -questions.

>  <snip other fairly vague descriptions>
> - Keeping the system and the ports up to date gets more and more time
>   consuming and risky (especially when compared to an "apt-get update &&
>   apt-get upgrade"). For example, the last devel/pear update in the
>   ports crashed my PHP installations on 2 development machines (still no
>   clue how to fix this).

I don't use PEAR, but wasn't there something in UPDATING about it?

David Adam
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
UCC Wheel Member
(who does plenty with apt, too, and will stick with the ports system
thank you very much.)