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To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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   of "Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:41:51 BST." <3EA43B6F.4010106@algroup.co.uk> 
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:27:09 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Laptop update... 
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> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:41:51 +0100
> From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> >>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:06:03 +0100
> >>From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
> >>
> >>Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >>>Has any A or T series ThinkPad owner built a new CURRENT system over the
> >>>past week?
> >>
> >>Note that mine is RELENG, not CURRENT. I'm happy to migrate if its
> >>thought useful.
> > 
> > 
> > RELENG or RELEASE? I really can't recommend RELEASE for a laptop because
> > so many fixes have been made since then to CardBus, interrupt routing,
> > and several other things. Current is a bit of a crap-shoot, but is
> > semi-frozen at this time and is generally pretty stable.
> 
> RELENG.

Slightly better than release, but mostly just RELEASE+Security patches,
so the CardBus and devd fixes and enhancements are not there. Current is
a little bit frightening, but I would not try running RELEASE on a
laptop and RELENG_5_0 does not really look much better.

One minor note: current newfs now defaults to UFS2. This is probably no
problem, but it does make rolling back to V4 pretty difficult. Existing
UFS1 partitions are unaffected.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634