From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 17:21:51 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 5C5DB16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:21:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pocky.capybara.org (H31.C18.B96.tor.eicat.ca [66.96.18.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C850443D2D for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:21:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@andrewkilpatrick.org) Received: from cubic.capybara.org (cubic.capybara.org [192.168.1.90]) by pocky.capybara.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6DHLkC17923 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:21:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Kilpatrick Organization: Andrew Kilpatrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:21:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200407131256.32918.andrew@andrewkilpatrick.org> <40F494E9.9000406@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <40F494E9.9000406@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407131321.45604.andrew@andrewkilpatrick.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1 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, 13 Jul 2004 17:21:51 -0000 Hi, thanks for the info. > Greetings! > > From what I gather, the 5.2-RELEASE was rather buggy and unstable (for > a RELEASE anyway), and was quickly replaced by 5.2.1-RELEASE which was a > considerable improvement. I've been using it as my main machine for some time and it works well. But I'll definitely upgrade at some point. Right now I am testing on my workstation as I my test machine is doing something else right now. > You're sparked my curiosity; what kind of embedded system are you > working on, pray tell? It's a theatrical lighting board. So far FreeBSD has satisfied all my requirements, so I've been really happy. I come from the NetBSD side of things. My distro is 18 megs plus my code and some other stuff. Ideally it will all fit in under 100 megs and boot off a flash memory disk. It's fun stuff, and should be done soon...... If you want to see what we're up to, here's a bit of a plug: http://www.invisiblerival.com Andrew