5.1 for production systems

[Matthias Buelow]

Doug Hardie writes:

>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?

If you can get it to boot... 5.x seems to be a bit picky about
what machines it can be booted on.  For example, on our HP Netserver
LH Pro, that's a no-go (4.x installed fine, though).  I've heard
other reports, especially notebooks, where installing 5.x was still
a bit on the rough edge (or plainly not working.)

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