Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:43:33 -0700 From: Alexey Yakimovich <aiy@ferens.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Quality of FreeBSD Message-ID: <1121917413.4895.47.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Hello, I've been using FreeBSD since 2.1 release. I really like it. I like everything: kernel, ports, development, maintenance and release process. Unfortunately I have so many problems with release 5, with ATA (FAILURE - READ_DMA, TIMEOUT - READ_DMA, etc) in particularly. Definitely I was using production releases only. Finally after so many system rebuilds I found 5.3-RELEASE-p13 very stable. But because of my previous great experience with FreeBSD I decided to upgrade my 5.3 production to 5.4 production (5.4-RELEASE-p4). Now I have the same ATA problems as I had with first 5.3 "production" release. Please don't tell me that I have bad disk or m/b or ATA controller or cable. I'm pretty sure, 90%, it's not hardware related problem. My advice to FreeBSD release engineering team: - do more testing; - have it tested with hardware what was published in "Hardware Notes"; - do not release it for production if it is not in production quality; - reread again what was written by yourself regarding 4.4 release quality. I wish to say more. This mail was written because I like FreeBSD and I want to continue using it. And wouldn't mind to wait longer for real production quality releases instead of start using something else. And please, I know, it's open source project. Best regards, Real FreeBSD fan
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