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Subject: Re: 5.x downgrade recommendation
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 08:18 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> I'm now considering if I will do the upgrade to 5.2-RELEASE, or
> reinstall the system with 4.9 or 4.10.
> The 5.x branch seems to remain rather unstable longer then I had
> anticipated.

Are you actually having problems running 5.1-RELEASE? I would only bother if 
there is some bug which is causing problems. I run 5.1-RELEASE and it works 
fine and dandy with no particularly bad problems (:

> What would you guys recommend, wait out for 5.3 (which is supposed to be
> 4.x-like stable), or move back to 4.9 (or 4.10 soon).

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