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From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
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Edd wrote:
>=20
> Is it a bad idea to use a 5.x kernel on a 4.x system?

It won't work at all, because FreeBSD 5.x and 4.x have substantial
differences.

It isn't even recommented to upgrade the kernel only on a FreeBSD
system, because kernel and userland have to be in sync. This is because
programms like `ps', and `ls', etc. share data type definitions with the
kernel, that might change.

Simon

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