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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] UCC Wheel Member (who does plenty with apt, too, and will stick with the ports system thank you very much.) _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
