FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jun 8 16:59:49 GMT 2005


On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:20:49PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Freddie Cash wrote:
> 
> > The only problem we've had with FreeBSD 5 is one system running 5.2.1 that 
> > ran for over a year just fine, but would not complete a buildworld 
> > (hardware has died and it has been retired, so it's not an issue any 
> > more).
> 
> I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, it was
> completely unusable.  Maybe we just live in different universes.

Right, it was a developer preview release that was not intended for
production use.

Kris

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