Re: New on BSware this week.

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>       9200095 galeon-0.10.5-1.mozilla.0.8.1_rh7.i386.rpm
>> The bomb BAY-BEE!!!
>Is that a good thing or bad thing?   :-)

I think it is a good thing,  given historical context.  He did come out of the closet as a galeon booster.

>>>       5312541 mozilla-psm-0.9-0.i386.rpm
>>>      13015529 mozilla-mail-0.9-0.i386.rpm
>>>      23900094 mozilla-devel-0.9-0.i386.rpm
>>>       1577595 mozilla-chat-0.9-0.i386.rpm
>>>      70404924 mozilla-0.9-0.i386.rpm
>> Ever think of bundling Ximian? 
>Thought about it.  Never got around to it.

MMMMMMMmmmmm.  XFS-SGI with Ximian! Oh, man.

>> BTW, have you tested Mozilla 0.9 with Galeon?
>Yes, a "--nodep" is required to install Galeon with 

I haven't tried this yet.

>Mozilla 0.9, but after that everything seems to work.
>>>       7502352 everybuddy-0.2.0-1.i386.rpm
>>Another bomb BAY-BEE!!!
>I'm running 2.1beta3 now since 2.0 kept crashing on me.  :-(

What is everybuddy anyway.

>>>     263280873 linux-2.4.4.tar.gz
>>>        217102 linux-2.4.4-knfsd-6.g.patch.gz
>> Asking for trouble.  ;-PPP
>Why?  (I haven't tried it)

http://lwn.net/2001/0503/kernel.php3

According to this and several other sources 2.4.4 has some problems with stability and performance.  I'm sticking with 2.4.3 until 2.4.5 comes out (2.4.3 seems to have problems with my Future Domain SCSI controller).