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From: "Jeffery T. White" <zellion@cyberwind.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.6 versus 2.2
Date: 11 Jan 1997 19:52:52 GMT
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> 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. 

Stable is relative, maybe 2.16 is more stable than 2.2 but in my mind that
is like saying a Rolls is better than a Mercedes where all of the other
software in the PC world is somewhere around the Pinto or Vega range :-)
when it comes to stability.


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