FreeBSD 5.1 stability

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 11:28 PM -0700 10/14/03, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003, Valery V.Chikalov wrote:
>
>>  >10:21AM  up 101 days, 17:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.33, 0.58, 0.44
>
>>  valera at don$ uptime
>>  8:22  up 112 days, 17:14, 1 user, load averages: 1,34 1,69 1,72
>
>I can beat both of you :-)
>
>11:07PM  up 147 days, 48 mins, 0 users, load averages: 2.29, 2.29, 2.24
>
>That's a sparc64 in the bento package build cluster.

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.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu