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From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: When will FreeBSD 2.1 be available?
Date: 12 Feb 1995 22:59:54 GMT
Organization: Solaris 2.4 research kitchen, D-41469 Neuss
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Rodney Volz (rodney@tyrell.s.bawue.de) wrote:
: In article <3hb7n1$esb@news0.cybernetics.net>,
: James Robinson <james@hermes.cybernetics.net> wrote:
: >In article <mldD3oxoq.C9y@netcom.com>, mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter) writes:
: >)dump.)  I'm wondering A)  if 2.0 is as stable as 1151.
: >)and B) if 2.1 is coming soon enough that I should wait for it,
: >)rather than go thru an install process twice... (once for 2.0 now and
: >)once for 2.1 later).
: >
: >IMO, 2.0R is not as stable as 1.1.5.1. On the other hand, it has a lot of added
: >features (as well as growing completely out of the new 4.4 lite code). YMMV.

: MMV. My mileage varies. I would have said just about the oposite; 2.0R
: is running here without any stability problems, while I had to
: downgrade from 1.1.5.1 to 1.0x because of problems with ttys and
: sudden reboots.

Don't try exotic / esoteric / ... and such kernel options and 2.0R
will be your friend :)

Other alternative, run the newest SNAP in the hope, it will be usefull.

Had no problems running 2.0R or SNAPS in the past...


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