How is 4-STABLE doing these days?

[Mark Cullen]

Mike Hauber wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2004 12:04 pm, Mark Cullen proclaimed:
> 
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I was just wondering what the state of 4-STABLE is these
>>days? I have just installed 4.10-R on a machine and was
>>going to update it to STABLE.
>>
>>What sort of changes have there been in STABLE since
>>4.10-R was released? UPDATING just stops at "4.10
>>released".
> 
> 

First off thanks to both the people who replied so far!

> That's interesting, now that you mention it.  I've kept up 
> to date with the changes by subscribing to the 
> freebsd-stable list.  As far as I know (and hopefully I'm 
> wrong on this...), it's is the only way to read up on the 
> actual changes as they take place.  

Whoops, sorry. Forgot about the other lists :)

> 
> The only problem is that you'll have to put on your waders 
> to find anything specific.  See the following link for more 
> info on the mailing list (link may have wrapped):
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

I'll look there now :)

> 
> If you don't want to subscribe to the list, the archives are 
> available from the link above as well.
> 
> I've cvsup'd just a few days ago and I'm running the latest 
> 4.10-STABLE on two machines (one is setup as a desktop and 
> the other provides various services to the LAN).  If it's 
> any help, it runs like a dream.  :)

I'm switching back from 5.x due to instability. I should probably go 
RELEASE and install the patches, but I can't help thinking STABLE would 
be a better choice :)

> 
> HTH,

It does, thank you very much!

> 
> Mike
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