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From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
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On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 20:48, Doug Hardie wrote:
> Some time ago there was an announcement that people should not use 5.0 
> for critical production systems.  Now that 5.1 is available, what is 
> the consesous on it?  Should it be used for critical production systems 
> yet?

I seem to recall a strong suggestion when 5.0-R came out that production
systems wait for at least 5.2-R, and preferably for when the 5-STABLE
series appears.

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brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
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electrical and computer engineering                              KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]