On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> I'm currently running Debian 1.3. I have the 2.0 binary CD and also
> the CD_autoup.sh script written by Craig Sanders. I'm hesitating about
> the upgrade though and I was wondering if someone could take the time
> to answer two questions:
>
> 1. What improvement in performance (or kinds of improvement) should
> I expect to notice?
> 2. I have in /usr/local a number of non-debian programs that I use a
> lot and that I'm very attached to (xv, rv_player). What are the
> chances that they would be broken because of the library upgrade?
>
I have upgraded about two weeks ago and I lost a lot of time trying to
figure out new configurations and recompiling older /usr/local programs -
some of them unsuccesfully so far. My system does not seem to be as
stable as it was under 1.3.1. I had an unusually large amount of
segmentation faults by otherwise reliable programs and even had to use my
reset button a day or two ago.
There is no improved performance that I can observe. However there are a
lot variety in what is available to choose from as far as programs are
concerned.
Some of the programs that I used to run form /usr/local is now available
as up-to-date debian packages - like python 1.5.1 and postgresql 6.3.2.
Xv is not on the non-free disk and you would have to download it from the
non-free directories I suspect.
Johann
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