Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:01:02 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is 4.9-RELEASE proving to be? Message-ID: <3FA07EEE.4030305@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org> References: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org>
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That's a tricky question. But all my machines have been tracking 4-stable, and how found it very stable. I think it comes down to whether you have problematic hardware. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com Brett Glass 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.
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