FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?

Matthias Buelow mkb at incubus.de
Wed Jun 8 10:24:00 GMT 2005


David Hogan wrote:

> In my time with the Trustix lists, I don't think I came across a serious
> kernel issue that wasn't caused by either a lack of a preinstalled driver or
> a bad stick of ram. Would you say that this holds true for FreeBSD? I

If that Trustix works for you now well, you'd be careless to migrate
now. If it works, why change it?
My experience with the 5.x tree so far is that it's ok for a SOHO or
private environment but I wouldn't trust it if my money (or job)
depended on it. Maybe in a year, or two but not now.

mkb.


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