For me it freezes for a few seconds when doing stuff with GUI. Only with the GUI though. From terminal it works great. I very seldom use the GUI anyway.
@taylorchu : Please file this as a bug on our labs tracker. tazpkgbox seems to be taking longer than it used to even though it should be much faster theoretically (because it utilizes caching now).
it is GUI. it is not quite like real freezing. the GUI "whites" out (blank) for about 1 minute. i think it is due to HAL. can anyone help to check that out?