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FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 Ready For Testing

Posted by timothy on from the asking-for-a-pounding dept.

wumpus188 writes "FreeBSD Release Eng. Team's Murray Stokely announces the availability of first release candidate for FreeBSD 4.9 (RC1). He is requesting everyone to download and test, including helping with finding bugs. As indicated in the Release Engineering Team's testing agenda, more testing should be done with PAE systems to test device compatibility and performance. In particular, active systems with 12 gigs of RAM or more should be thoroughly tested to make sure the various memory allocation algorithms in the kernel still scale properly."

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  1. OK , maybe this is a stupid question but.... by Viol8 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is the 5.x series stable enough yet to use in a serious enviroment or should I stick to 4.x for
    the time being? Even though I use FreeBSD (though admittedly only as a backup OS to Linux) I'm confused by their release policy. At what minor
    version increment do current release branches become stable or are we supposed to just hope for the best?
    If 5.0 was as unstable as I've heard in certain situations why was it ever released , why don't they just do the same as the linux kernel
    team and keep releasing beta versions until things seem ok?