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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE
From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
To: Jack Raats <jack@jarasoft.net>
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Jack Raats <jack@jarasoft.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In this mailinglist I'm reading a lot about problems (re)compiling the system. At this moment I'm running:
> "FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE (ORAC) #0 r244047: Sun Dec  9 15:33:19 CET 2012" without problems.
>
> Is it save to recompile the system with all patches?
>
> Thanks
> Jack Raats
> _______________________________________________


You're seeing just the "tip of the iceberg" meaning only those who do
have problems building the OS from sources and are following the
mailing lists post on them. There's potentially thousands or even much
more of those who are following 9-STABLE and never encounter a problem
they can not solve on their own.