6.0 release date and stability

[Brett Glass]

The release schedule for FreeBSD 6.0, on the FreeBSD Web site, doesn't show a
projected date for the finished product.  How close is it? We are (believe it
or not) still running and building production servers with 4.11, and would
love to move to 6.0 (at least for uniprocessor systems; we may wait for 6.1
for SMP) if it is sufficiently stable and performs adequately.

We're running our own tests on RC1, but don't have a lot of spare servers to
try it on. So, it's worth asking: How stable is RC1 turning out to be on
uniprocessor platforms?  On SMP platforms? How is network and disk performance
relative to 4.11? (When we tested 5.x, both network and file system
performance were worse than that of 4.11.) With what known problems is 6.0
likely to ship, and of these which are likely to impact uniprocessor systems?
Are any "showstopper" bugs merely being worked around for release? And, again,
when is the likely release date?

--Brett Glass