[gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

[gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

[Richard Fish]

Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging
out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the
modular-X upgrade.

Cheers,
-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

[fire-eyes]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:51, Richard Fish wrote:
> Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging
> out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the
> modular-X upgrade.

Indeed!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

[John J. Foster]

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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:51:43AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging
> out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the
> modular-X upgrade.
> 
ditto
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Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Richard Fish wrote:
> Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging
> out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the
> modular-X upgrade.

I've been trying to do the same on the forums, for those of you around
there. Hope it's made this somewhat difficult transition a bit easier
for you.

Thanks,
Donnie


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Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 21:19 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Richard Fish wrote:
> > Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging
> > out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the
> > modular-X upgrade.
> 
> I've been trying to do the same on the forums, for those of you around
> there. Hope it's made this somewhat difficult transition a bit easier
> for you.

I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon
unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it.
Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it
that way.

My 2 cents anyway.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon
> unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it.
> Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it
> that way.

Yep, that's your prerogative. But the next exploit may not get updated
in 6.x. There are plenty of improvements to expect, but you'd need to
read the ChangeLogs for details. Addition of the new acceleration
architecture (exa), accelerated indirect GLX, and many fixes to drivers
are just a few.

Thanks,
Donnie


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Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 01:54 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon
> > unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it.
> > Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it
> > that way.
> 
> Yep, that's your prerogative. But the next exploit may not get updated
> in 6.x. 

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to upgrade, I just don't
have a test box and I just don't want to go through some "hell" to get
my laptop to work for work. :-)

> There are plenty of improvements to expect, but you'd need to
> read the ChangeLogs for details.

Which changelogs? Xorgs or the one in portage?
I can't seem to find the changelogs for xorg 7.0 in www.x.org.

>  Addition of the new acceleration
> architecture (exa), accelerated indirect GLX, and many fixes to drivers
> are just a few.

I see, you mean xorg's changelogs.

I just looked at the modular x upgrade howto and the wiki, seems pretty
decent. 
But the Block List and the # of packages is just huge :-)

What are the caveats during the upgrade?



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