How stable is 4.9-RELEASE proving to be?

[Richard Coleman]

That's a tricky question.  But all my machines have been tracking 
4-stable, and how found it very stable.  I think it comes down to 
whether you have problematic hardware.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com

Brett Glass wrote:

> We need immediate feedback on the stability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. (Yes, I
> know, people are just starting to download it now.) We want and need some of
> the important fixes that went into -STABLE in the past month (including vital
> upates to IPFW2), but can't afford to put a release that's not absolutely
> solid on a production system. (For the same reason, we probably won't go to
> 5.x until 5.3.) The comment in the release notes suggesting that conservative
> users stick with 4.8-RELEASE is not encouraging. If 4.9 isn't stable, we may
> be forced to jump over to OpenBSD 3.4 for new production systems.