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Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Jeremy Messenger schrieb:,
>
>   
>> But, we will accept any patch that fix for FreeBSD 4.x as long it doesn't  
>> break with FreeBSD 5.x, 6.x and 7.x. There is no reason to keep FreeBSD  
>> 4.x for desktop.
>>     
>
> Well well, hold the horses ....
> There are still a dozens regression in 5.x
> - some hardware does not boot 5.x
> - vimum/gvinum ist not working with 4.x volumes
> - and performaces is a nightmare on atapi harddisks
> - em0 gigabit ethernet solws down to 40kb/s
> - yacc is broken in the base.
> ... and more to detect
>
> So far about 11 of 30 istalled machines were broken on update.
>
> Keep in mind that 5.4 was the first "stable" release of 5.x.
> But it has not reached the quality of 4.x
>   
Have you tried 6?