Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-04 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:14:02PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On 04/08/10 01:48, Bob Tracy wrote: > >So... What's the current state of unstable on Alpha? I've been told > >the following so far: > > Thinking about that list further we should add: > > 8) Xorg only works on bwx capable Alphas. >

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/08/10 01:48, Bob Tracy wrote: So... What's the current state of unstable on Alpha? I've been told the following so far: Thinking about that list further we should add: 8) Xorg only works on bwx capable Alphas. I did take a look at fixing the Xserver for the older Alphas but discovere

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/08/10 15:04, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Cree wrote: Comments welcome. I've received one strong recommendation to give Gentoo a try, Matt, no doubt :-/ He's a great evangelist for Gentoo. Turn that :-/ upside.. well, not down. :-\ is pretty much the sa

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/08/10 01:48, Bob Tracy wrote: Unfortunately, firefox-3.6.8 built with an up-to-date lenny environment suffers from the same persistent segfault issues, which tends to indicate some kind of problem with libraries, which is what pushed me toward "unstable" originally, OK, I've got a monol