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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?
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Freddie Cash wrote:

> The only problem we've had with FreeBSD 5 is one system running 5.2.1 that 
> ran for over a year just fine, but would not complete a buildworld 
> (hardware has died and it has been retired, so it's not an issue any 
> more).

I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, it was
completely unusable.  Maybe we just live in different universes.

mkb.