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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: 2.1.6 versus 2.2
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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:58:08 GMT
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Jeffery T. White (zellion@cyberwind.com) wrote:
: > Personally, I already run 2.2-Alpha and 2.2-Beta. I find them to be
: > more "polished" for my needs, many changes since 2.1.x work in
: > directions that are more intuitive for me. If there are bugs in these
: > new/changed functionality, they are not bad enough to show up here.
: 
: I put up a 2.2 SNAP (101496 I think) and it is very stable... If it were
: not for limited time I would upgrade my 2.1.5 to 2.2 BETA. I just am short
: of time for upgrades right now, but I will go to 2.2-RELEASE day one. IMHO
: many of the supposed "less than stable" versions of FreeBSD are more stable
: than any product EVER released from say Microsoft or a host of other
: developers. 

Hmmm...I've had more problems with my FreeBSD boxes than my DOS boxes,but
I cringe at the very idea of trying to get DOS boxes to do what my FreeBSD
boxes do around the clock...