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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD]:Should this happen? Date: 13 Dec 1993 04:39:55 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2egrmr$rp7@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <2ec4r8$2am@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <hastyCHy161.1D7@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <hastyCHy161.1D7@netcom.com>, Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote: >> I was sitting there wrestling with perl a little bit >> tonight, when all of a sudden, machine locks up. >> > >Well, netbsd-0.9 is a bit more unstable than netbsd-0.8 which I ran >for several months. > >Also, I am not sure that shared libraries were available with netbsd-0.9 > >Last but not least nebsd-current is a rapidly evolving OS and there >is no current snapshot available. There is an upgrade path to >netbsd-current from netbsd-0.9;however, you will be at the mercy >of the current shape of the netbsd-current src tree. Well, actually, that was with a generic 0.9 tree, and while quite annoying, appears to have ben quite harmless (except that it tried to allocate about 60MB swap for a program that normally takes about 500K---I rebooted after that). As for getting to -current, I have upgraded to it twice now with few problems. I'm just in the process of doing so now, and apart from two minor problems, am having no troubles whatsoever. (praise be to allah!) Marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--