Re: FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 RC1 and KDE4

From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:47:06 -0400
Hi,

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
<m.e.sanliturk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The KDE4 in FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 amd64 is generating enormous amount of error
> messages during usage ( not visible on screen , but seen after Ctrl-Alt-F1
> discontinuation of X ) . This is making it extremely slow which may be
> considered to be practically unusable . Actually parts are working generally
> but every step is waiting so much that such a usage is not practically
> applicable .
>
What are the message(s) ?

Thanks,
 - Arnaud

> The KDE4 in FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 i386 is working satisfactorily , but for memory
> requirements , it is not an alternative .
>
> There are important usability differences between both architectures with
> respect to KDE4 execution .
>
>
> One alternative is mentioned as PC-BSD , but installation of PC-BSD is NOT
> possible :
>
> In PC-BSD 8.2 amd64 Release and following snapshot(s) , within 18 ( eighteen
> ) hours , only a small percent ( less than % 10 ) could be installed .
> Now , in PC-BSD 9.0 RC1 amd64 , I am still waiting : In 4 ( four ) hours it
> could come to "Installing Meta Package : base-system" .
> Such an installation structure is really unusable . I will discontinue it
> because it seems that complete install will require many days with that
> speed  .
>
> I am continuously installing many other distributions which mostly they are
> consuming time around thirty minutes ( except upgrade during installation ,
> if it is selected )  .
>
> Thirty minutes may be considered an acceptable duration for installation ,
> let's say , time less than one hour as endurable .
> It should not be forgotten that , the task is copy of approximately 4 Giga
> Bytes to hard disk from a DVD-Rom with an additional decompressing of files
> .
>
> Therefore , for the KDE4 users in the amd64 platform , there is a big
> problem .
>
> This was also the case for 8.2 amd64 Release .
>
>
>
> Thank you very much .
>
>
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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