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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD]:Should this happen?
Message-ID: <hastyCHzKnK.C3r@netcom.com>
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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
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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



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