Hi BSD-Freaks!

I am now "using" RiscBSD 1.2-Beta for one year and there were no
severe problems with it. Lately I "heard" about the fact there being
a new 1.3-Alpha version of it. Now some few questions...

1. X-performance

The Xarm-Server in 1.2-Beta (Version 27, I think) was a bit flaky
when dragging windows around, hast this been improved?

2. I/O-performance

Has the speed of disk-transfer been improved? Under RISC-OS 3.7
my Quantum 2.1 GB reaches 2MB/sec, but under BSD only about 650 KB/sec.

2. What about shared libraries?

Are the binaries still in the size range of some Megabytes, even
simple commands like cp, top, ...?

3. StrongARM-Support

What about the frequent cache-flushings every few seconds? Has the
kernel been adapted to StrongARM?

4. New ported software (Java, TeX)

Are there new software products included in the new version worth
downloading?


Ok, I would be happy if anyone could give me some advice wether
upgrading to 1.3-alpha makes sense for me.
By the way, my access to ftp.uni-stuttgart.de is quite good, so
downloading takes just some minutes!

Thanks in advance,

Marc Theisen