Re: The road ahead ...
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Christian Meder wrote:
> * X
>
> Seems to work well on most installations. I uploaded the last X packages and
> didn't file a bug report with the patch but sent it to Anders who
> usually does the X stuff on Sparc. I didn't keep up with the latest X
> prereleases on i386 but we definitly need another X upload after Branden
> released another X set. Anders, Steve, could you coordinate on syncing up
> with Branden's prereleases ? I would favor to use the current X sparc patch
> for frozen and switch to Steve's patches for potato.
There's still a kernel bug with X and the cgsix. See other threads here
and on sparclinux.
>
> * kernel issues
>
> 2.0.35 was running pretty well for me. I'm running a 2.2.0-pre8 cvs kernel
> right now which is up 6 days. Anyone experiences with 2.2.0 ?
>
> If we'll agree on a good 2.2.x candiate I'll package it and upload an image.
> Probably we should provide 2.2.x boot images too. What's your opinion Eric ?
>
I'm running 2.2.0-pre5, aliened from a redhat rpm. Seems fine (except I
can't use X ;-(
> * outdated and missing packages
>
> I've got most of the outdated stuff compiled and will upload it today or
> tomorrow (hope I will get Gnome done too ;-)
Wow. Good work. I'm working on perl (our slink version doesn't have
GDBM_File support).
>
> * testing
>
> I would appreciate a flood of experiences with the uptodate sparc slink
> distribution. Serious brokenness is especially welcome but we like
> supportive cheers too ;-)
fakeroot seems to be seriously broken.
Jules
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