FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Kilpatrick
Hi, I'm developing an embedded system based on FreeBSD. When I started to build a stripped down version of FreeBSD I was using 5.2 RELEASE. Now I keep finding that 5.2 has vanished from most servers, and only 5.2.1 is available. This is particularly troubling, because I'm worried that I'm

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread Henrik W Lund
Andrew Kilpatrick wrote: Hi, I'm developing an embedded system based on FreeBSD. When I started to build a stripped down version of FreeBSD I was using 5.2 RELEASE. Now I keep finding that 5.2 has vanished from most servers, and only 5.2.1 is available. This is particularly troubling, because

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread cpghost
Andrew Kilpatrick wrote: So, my questions is what happened to 5.2 RELEASE? Is there some reason that it has gone away? Should I be upgrading my embedded distro? Technically, 5.2-RELEASE is still in the CVS repository. You could access it by fetching the sources with the

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Kilpatrick
Hi, thanks for the info. Greetings! From what I gather, the 5.2-RELEASE was rather buggy and unstable (for a RELEASE anyway), and was quickly replaced by 5.2.1-RELEASE which was a considerable improvement. I've been using it as my main machine for some time and it works well. But I'll

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:56:32 -0400 Andrew Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing an embedded system based on FreeBSD. When I started to build a stripped down version of FreeBSD I was using 5.2 RELEASE. Now I keep finding that 5.2 has vanished from most servers, and only

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread Arjan Van Leeuwen
Hey Andrew, On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:21:45 -0400, Andrew Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thanks for the info. Greetings! From what I gather, the 5.2-RELEASE was rather buggy and unstable (for a RELEASE anyway), and was quickly replaced by 5.2.1-RELEASE which was a considerable