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On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 01:54 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> > I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon |
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> > unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it. |
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> > Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it |
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> > that way. |
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> Yep, that's your prerogative. But the next exploit may not get updated |
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> in 6.x. |
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Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to upgrade, I just don't |
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have a test box and I just don't want to go through some "hell" to get |
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my laptop to work for work. :-) |
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> There are plenty of improvements to expect, but you'd need to |
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> read the ChangeLogs for details. |
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Which changelogs? Xorgs or the one in portage? |
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I can't seem to find the changelogs for xorg 7.0 in www.x.org. |
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> Addition of the new acceleration |
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> architecture (exa), accelerated indirect GLX, and many fixes to drivers |
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> are just a few. |
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I see, you mean xorg's changelogs. |
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I just looked at the modular x upgrade howto and the wiki, seems pretty |
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decent. |
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But the Block List and the # of packages is just huge :-) |
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What are the caveats during the upgrade? |
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