From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 17:28:29 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 7025016A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:28:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE3D743D2D for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:28:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from avleeuwen@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 72so42053rnf for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.163.20 with SMTP id l20mr468365rne; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:28:28 +0200 From: Arjan Van Leeuwen To: Andrew Kilpatrick In-Reply-To: <200407131321.45604.andrew@andrewkilpatrick.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200407131256.32918.andrew@andrewkilpatrick.org> <200407131321.45604.andrew@andrewkilpatrick.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.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 17:28:29 -0000 Hey Andrew, On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:21:45 -0400, Andrew Kilpatrick wrote: > 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. There were some considerable problems with specific ATA chipsets in 5.2-RELEASE that were fixed in 5.2.1. But if you don't have any problems, that's of course not a reason to upgrade. > > > 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...... I have a 80MB Flash disk that boots with X and some graphical applications, also for an embedded application, 5.2-RELEASE-based too. Works like a charm! Arjan