On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Chris Laco wrote:
Just a lurker, and FreeBSD users since late 3.0... From my personal experience of (4) 4.x machines and (1) 5.x machine, all on the same hardware, I've had more problems with my 5.x install than I ever did with my 4.x install. I'm afraid to even look to see if 6.0 will run on it.
6.x is a significantly more refined release series than 5.x ever was, and this is a result of a lot of very hard work. If you didn't like 5.x, you should try 6.x and see how it does for you. Don't assume that problems you may have experienced in 5.x persist. In particular, the whole world of ACPI has matured drastically in the last 3-4 years, which has resolved a lot of issues with hardware probing, etc, that existed in earlier 5.x releases. Part of this is vendors fixing their BIOS's, part of it is improvements in the Intel ACPI CA code, and part of it is adding blacklisting, workarounds, etc, for known BIOS problems. File system performance and stability have gone up drastically, as has network performance and stability. So I would encourage you to re-evaluate in the 6.x world, ideally with the most recent 6.x release available. Undoubtably there will be imperfections, but as I hope the 6.x release processes have revealed, we're working hard to resolve any issues.
Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
