[olug] FreeBSD 5.2 and instability

[Sean Kelly]

The other day I, and others, mentioned that FreeBSD 5.x was not as stable
and ready for production as the 4.x branch. Weill, FreeBSD 5.2-BETA ISOs
are available, and this e-mail also describes some of the problems that I
was hinting at the other day that are currently partial showstoppers.

----- Forwarded message from Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> -----

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:16:44 -0700
From: Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-current at FreeBSD.org
Cc: developers at freebsd.org
Subject: Announcing 5.2-BETA

All,

It's my pleasure to announce the availability of 5.2-BETA ISO images and 
ftp install sets for i386 and alpha.  Amd64, sparc64, ia64, and pc98
sets will be available shortly.  Please test this as much as possible
and let us know of the problems that you find.  Some known problems to
watch out for:

- Certain SMP systems may fail to boot.  Disabling ACPI may work around
  this.
- NFS might be unstable in certain situations, though we have not been
  able to identify what situations yet.
- Rebuilding ata-raid arrays may cause panics.

Please see the 5.2 TODO list at 
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/todo.html for the list of other
problems and areas that need testing.

ISO images and ftp install sets are available from ftp.freebsd.org and
its mirrors at /pub/FreeBSD/releases/<ARCH>.  If the bits have not 
reached your favorite mirror yet, please check the list of alternate
mirrors at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

Please help us make 5.2 the best FreeBSD release ever!

Thank you,

The Release Engineering Team

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