Re: XFree86-4

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Sam, 2002-03-09 at 13:04, David Jones wrote:=20

> I am in the process of updating my working debian 2.2r3 (originally
> from CD's) installation with Xfree-4. (Is it worth the effort?)

You have to decide for yourself; XFree86 4 offers nice features like better
hardware acceleration, anti-aliased text, ... but if you're satisfied with
version 3, the effort may indeed outweigh the benefits for you.

> I have used an apt-get install xserver -Xfree86 command and been told I
> need to download 31mb of stuff and 57mb will subsequently be removed from
> my installation. Things like abiword, gnome files etc are to be removed.
> Does this sound correct.

No, none of those packages should have to be removed. I suspect your
version of apt can't handle the upgrade, one should always upgrade apt firs=
t
as a rule of thumb. So try just

apt-get install apt

before trying again. If it still wants to remove a lot of packages, please
provide some output.

> I don't want to go ahead and find I need to start again.
> I pay for my online time per minute so I would like an alternative
> method if possible, is there one. (downloading seems alot slower that
> using my miggy, any way of speeding this up)

Linux has higher latencies than AmigaOS, which is very bad for serial
transmission because the internal serial port doesn't have a buffer.

Has anyone tried if one of the low latency patches floating around helps?

> apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade both take ages, is there an
> easier way of upgrading to an up todate setup?

I doubt there's an easier way, but you might e.g. be able to (ab)use the
apt-zip package to download packages in AmigaOS.


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast