Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:20:52 +0000 From: Craig Wilson <craig@natsoft.com.au> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Stability Of FreeBSD 2.2.5 CD-ROM Release Message-ID: <34798D44.BA8@natsoft.com.au>
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National Software Pty Ltd is a computer software company situated in Tasmania, Australia which developes multi-user accounting software. National Software Pty Ltd has a client base of over 550. Over the last 12 months I have been recommending to my Unix clients that they use FreeBSD in preferance to SCO Unix as their operating system. I have compiled the NATSOFT range of software to run under FreeBSD. I now have 13 individual clients running FreeBSD on 26 computer systems. They are running versions from 2.1.6 to 2.2.2 I have found FreeBSD to be a very reliable and stable operating system. Credit must be given to the FreeBSD team for a very good product. As National Software is a commercial entity there is no time available for make world etc on each computer that FreeBSD is installed on, and because clients computers are placed all over the place it is not possible to keep their operating systems current. The operating system should be stable as installed from the CD-ROM with a minimum of patches, otherwise it is unusable. When a FreeBSD system is installed I first install from the CD-ROM release (binaries and kernal sources only), then tar a floppy of configuration files & patched source files over the installed system, modify any kernal parameters, and then rebuild the kernel. This makes installation a fast process. It is important that the operating system is stable, and from the mailing lists I am not sure whether the 2.2.5 CD-ROM release is stable ie the VM lookup (kern/4844) problem. Could you please comment, and perhaps advise of any known stability problems with the 2.2.5 release and the files/patches that would be needed to cure any problems, or am I best to stay with 2.2.2, which has been very stable, and wait for 2.2.6 to be released. I have a FreeBSD subscription. Thanks in advance for any information you may be able to give me, and thanks to the team for a great operating system. Regards, Craig Wilson National Software Pty.Ltd. --------------------------
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