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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.6 versus 2.2
Date: 15 Jan 1997 15:47:18 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Jeffery T. White
wrote on 11 Jan (in article <01bbfff9$a4b6bec0$df6d04c7@zellion.cyberwind.com>):
>> 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.
Seconding! My web-server runs FreeBSD June-snapshot since the day
it was turned on on August 1st. Not a single problem. I added ssh,
inn, upgraded the sendmail, etc. (remotely machine is 20 miles away
from me) without reboots with working Apache serving pages (the
primary httpd has already consumed 53:06 of CPU time).
Great system!
-mi
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