disadvantages of running 8.3 kernel on freebsd 8.2 system

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 15:40:00 UTC 2013


On 17 Jan 2013 12:43, "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
wrote:
>>
>>
>>   - What are specific disadvantages that i can see clearly, running 8.3
>>   kernel on freebsd 8.2?
>
>
> no idea. just get latest -8 sources, compile world and kernel and install.
>
> all newest and in sync.

I agree;  very weird problems sometimes happen with out of sync
kernel/world; normally with new world old kernel, but the opposite is
possible.

Are you simply apprehensive over the time of buildworld?

Chris


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