From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 23:01:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117ED16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:01:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (pemaquid.safeport.com [204.156.12.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D7743D2D for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:01:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i8LN1LcE052829 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:01:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost)i8LN1LvD052826 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:01:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: pemaquid.safeport.com: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:01:21 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040921182319.W302@pemaquid.safeport.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: 5.3 stable when? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:01:23 -0000 I just finishing installing 5.3. I was going to compose an email saying how well it worked for me. Appending to this thread seems applicable. I have a 9 year old Dell Inspiron 7500. With 5.1 and 5.2 I had issues with the ACPI (Intel's gift to the work, I am told) and the ep driver, so I had to drop back to 4.10 I just reinstalled a 5.2 CD and cvsup'd to RELENG_5. Everything worked like a charm. All ACPI errors were handled and even the ep driver worked. 5.3 may or may not be ready for production servers but it is ready for prime time as a workstation. I am not sure where Kris found such ancient hardware to test on, but thanks. I hope to keep using this thing until 64 bit processors become cheap. On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > Isn't 5.3 supposed to be going stable here soon? Any time line? > > > > Also, since I have 5.3-BETA1 and I see it's at 5.3-BETA5, should I > > worry about upgrading to BETA5 or just wait till it goes stable? > > > > Curtis > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html > > Kevin Kinsey > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601