How stable is 4.9-RELEASE proving to be?

Wed Oct 29 08:54:52 PST 2003

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.
>
>Will there be a 4.9.1 if there are serious problems in 4.9?
>
>--Brett Glass
>  
>

$cvsup mysupfile
Connected to cvsup11.freebsd.org
Updating collection src-all/cvs
 Edit src/Makefile.inc1
 Edit src/UPDATING

So far, so good ;-)

KDK