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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:40:48 -0200 (BRST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?T=F3rgan_Flores_de_Siqueira?= <torgan@inf.ufrgs.br>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.x concerns
Message-ID:  <20050207212024.H27037@zero>
In-Reply-To: <20050207101634.8716616A569@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20050207101634.8716616A569@hub.freebsd.org>

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> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:01:49PM +0000, Chris wrote:
>
>> 4 - compatiblity, I remember using 5.2.1 and pretty much all software
>> worked well in that and then they did the bind defaulting to base and
>> libs version jump, why wasnt this done in 5.0 so 3rd party apps could
>> adjust, now we have a situation where most stuff that worked in 4.x
>> worked well in 5.1 and 5.2.1 but then broke in 5.3 so effectively 5.3
>> was liek a new major version over 5.2.1.
>
> 5.2.1 was clearly marked as a "developer preview" release and you were
> warned not to rely on it for production use.  As a snapshot of
> FreeBSD-CURRENT, binary compatibility is not guaranteed and often
> needs to be broken in the course of development.
>
> Kris

Just adding a note: I regularly use FreeBSD on a Toshiba notebook, and
switched from 4.x to 5.x to benefit from cardbus support.
Well, I started with 5.2.1 and all things did well. Since then, I'm
trying to track 5-STABLE with no success. Starting with 5.3-RELEASE,
the ACPI stopped to work, as well as did the rl driver.
So, I switched back to 5.2.1.

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T=F3rgan
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