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 .
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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
