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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:29:23 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        T?rgan Flores de Siqueira <torgan@inf.ufrgs.br>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.x concerns
Message-ID:  <20050208002923.GA83862@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050207212024.H27037@zero>
References:  <20050207101634.8716616A569@hub.freebsd.org> <20050207212024.H27037@zero>

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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:40:48PM -0200, T?rgan Flores de Siqueira wrote:
> >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
>=20
> 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.

Sorry to hear that - I hope you submitted bug reports so that someone
can try to fix this, otherwise you might be stuck with 5.2.1 forever.

Kris


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