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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:20:32 +0700
From:      zen <zen@tk-pttuntex.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How stable is 4.9-RELEASE proving to be?
Message-ID:  <1882802546.20031030082032@tk-pttuntex.com>
In-Reply-To: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org>
References:  <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org>

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Hello Brett,

Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 11:41:37 PM, you wrote:

> We need immediate feedback on the stability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. (Yes, I
> know, people are just starting to download it now.) We want and need some of
> the important fixes that went into -STABLE in the past month (including vital
> upates to IPFW2), but can't afford to put a release that's not absolutely
> solid on a production system. (For the same reason, we probably won't go to
> 5.x until 5.3.) The comment in the release notes suggesting that conservative
> users stick with 4.8-RELEASE is not encouraging. If 4.9 isn't stable, we may
> be forced to jump over to OpenBSD 3.4 for new production systems.

> Will there be a 4.9.1 if there are serious problems in 4.9?

it's stable enough for me. we plant to upgrade all servers to 4.9
STABLE ASAP.


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Best regards,
 zen                            mailto:zen@tk-pttuntex.com



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