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[Thomas Mueller]

> Not to be contrary, but I think this is an exceptionally bad time to switch
> to current if you want stability. Maybe in another week, but not quite yet.
> When code freeze is upon us, there are LOTS of commits of WIP, and things
> tend to break rather badly for a few days. These issues are normally fixed
> fairly quickly, but it takes a little time and, from the issues raised in
> mail to current@, things are still a bit rough.

> I really don't want to discourage the use of 10.0 as more use is far better
> for a solid release, but running current can be a bit more risky, and
> running it right after freeze is especially so. (So is running it right
> after current is re-opened after release.) I'd recommend waiting until
> around 10/10. (I like this date as it is the same whether your locality
> puts month or day first). By then current should be pretty stable.
--
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

As Niclas Zeising points out, current/head may be not so bad.

On main computer from June 2011, I use 9.2 prerelease, getting ready to source-upgrade, on both hard drive and USB stick.

I may even install 9.2 i386 on a USB 3.0 stick, wine being the big reason.

But on MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard, I would build FreeBSD-current from 9.2 amd64 USB 2.0 stick, but Realtek 9111E re0 doesn't work on Z77 MPOWER motherboard, using 9.2 USB-stick installation, though it works on main computer.

I don't really know if re0 would work on FreeBSD-current on MSI Z77 MPOWER, but there is also a device rsu in 
$SRCDIR/sys/conf/NOTES that might work with Hiro H50191 USB-stick WLAN adapter, chip Realtek RTL8191SU 802.11n .

This Ethernet works with re0 in NetBSD-current amd64 (NetBSD 6.1_STABLE consistently hung on boot) but not OpenBSD 5.3 Live USB; seems to be good with Linux. 

So I source-upgraded my USB-stick installation of NetBSD-current amd64 (they use cvs), packages too from pkgsrc, then built subversion and checked out FreeBSD-current source tree.

Now I can build FreeBSD-current using FreeBSD 9.2 USB stick unless I dare to cross-compile from NetBSD, think FreeBSD would have the better chance of success.  But I would svn update first, from NetBSD-current amd64.

I feel like current is the only FreeBSD option for the MSI Z77 MPOWER, also the only NetBSD option.

It seems this thread should really be on freebsd-current?

Tom