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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:42:45 -0400
Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:

> At 12:20 PM 08/06/2005, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> 
> >I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, it
> >was completely unusable.  Maybe we just live in different
> >universes.
> 
> Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I
> think was called a preview.  The topic is 5.4R.  What parts of the
> OS do you feel are not production ready as compared to 4.X ?

It is safe saying a lot has changed since releng_5_3. The most
imporant, imo, were those that happened shortly after releng_5_3 was
released. Those fixed a few annoying problems I had with it.

I feel perfectly safe running 5.4 in a production enviroment. Never
had any problems with it.