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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!apple.com!amd!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: [NetBSD]:Should this happen? Message-ID: <hastyCHzKnK.C3r@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2ec4r8$2am@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <hastyCHy161.1D7@netcom.com> <2egrmr$rp7@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 18:28:31 GMT Lines: 41 In article <2egrmr$rp7@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: >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!) > > Well, all I have to say is try out. It is not fair to say that netbsd-current has bugs because is under development. Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X