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On Friday 20 June 2003 07:50 pm, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Doug Hardie writes:
> >Some time ago there was an announcement that people should not use
> > 5.0 for critical production systems.  Now that 5.1 is available,
> > what is the consesous on it?  Should it be used for critical
> > production systems yet?
>
> If you can get it to boot... 5.x seems to be a bit picky about
> what machines it can be booted on.  For example, on our HP Netserver
> LH Pro, that's a no-go (4.x installed fine, though).  I've heard
> other reports, especially notebooks, where installing 5.x was still
> a bit on the rough edge (or plainly not working.)

RELENG_5 does not seem to have been tagged yet.  Does that look like 
it's stable enough yet?