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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?
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At 12:20 PM 08/06/2005, Matthias Buelow wrote:

>I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, it was
>completely unusable.  Maybe we just live in different universes.

Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I think was 
called a preview.  The topic is 5.4R.  What parts of the OS do you feel are 
not production ready as compared to 4.X ?

         ---Mike