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From: Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>
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Subject: RE: FreeBSD 5.1 stability
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Martin Minkus (Martin.Minkus@Geac.com) wrote: 
>
>
>Well perhaps I'll hold off making world as I just cvsupped ;)

I have a system here that was last updated approximately 2 days ago,
and it is still working without any problems. Well, it _IS_ an idle
system, though ;-)

>Don't wanna lose any stability...

You _do_ keep the old working kernel and modules, right?

Holger Kipp

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih@rpi.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2003 03:16
>To: Kris Kennaway; Valery V.Chikalov
>Cc: Martin Minkus; current@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 stability
>
> [..]
>I hate to rain on this parade, but that only tells us how reliable 5.x
>was 147 days ago.  5.x remains in a state of flux, and there have been
>many times in the last 147 days where you could cvsup into a very
>unstable system.