5.1 for production systems

[David Schultz]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003, Doug Hardie wrote:
> Some time ago there was an announcement that people should not use 5.0 
> for critical production systems.  Now that 5.1 is available, what is 
> the consesous on it?  Should it be used for critical production systems 
> yet?

The most common problems reported have been related to ACPI.
Other than that, 5.X has received a good deal of testing on
desktop systems, with very positive results.  But it has
probably received less exposure on heavily loaded servers, so
you should be wary that problems are possible.