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On 2012.11.24 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family.  Is this branch ready
> for production or should I wait a while yet?  
This probably won't help much, but I wouldn't call any system
"production ready" until I've tested it as thoroughly as possible and
qualified it myself for the purpose I intend to use it. I wouldn't
blindly trust and drop an operating system on production servers, no
matter how good the feedback from outside my organization sounds.

As far as FreeBSD release engineering goes, I believe all -RELEASE
versions are aimed at maximum stability. But obviously no person or
organization can ever test all possible hardware, software and settings
combinations.