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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: is 2.2-961014 bugfree? or when is 2.2.0?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 05:52:15 -0800
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To: Kevin at Freeside Support <kevintx@freeside.fc.net>

Kevin at Freeside Support wrote:
> How stable/bugfree is the 2.2-961014-SNAP system?  Should it be used

I'm using it in a few places, supplemented by recent builds from
-current.  No major problems so far.

> production machine or would I be better off with just 2.1.5-RELEASE (even
> though it lacks some of the fixes/niceties that have gone into 2.2)?

Unless you're really FreeBSD literate, yes, that would be my suggestion.

> How far is FreeBSD from putting out 2.2.0-RELEASE?  With 2.2 so far along
> in development, it would be worth waiting a little while to go with that.

Expect it sometime after new years.
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project