On 5 Jan, Brett Glass wrote: > It's probably one of the Slashdot "BSD is dead" trolls. The fact is, though, > that there ARE things about FreeBSD that could stand improvement. These > days, when I build a box, I am torn between using FreeBSD 5.x -- which is > not ready for prime time but is at least being worked on actively -- and > using 4.9, which isn't as stable as it should be because the developers > broke the cardinal rule of making radical changes to -STABLE. This *is* > a real issue for those of us who are admins.
The worst breakage of 4-STABLE in recent memory was the PAE commit, which I got the impression was driven by end-user demand. Probably folks who had expensive systems with > 4GB of RAM who wanted to be able to run 4-STABLE production systems and make use of all that RAM right now and not wait for 5.x to become production-worthy. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"