----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 09:39 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: > > >Nothing stops someone other than the normal RE team from rolling something > >release-esque (like a 4.X snapshot) and requesting that it be made available > >for download on the FreeBSD sites.... or rolling your own release for > >internal use. > > Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes "official" releases > and does things like download ports, etc. won't work.
It would recognize it as 4.11. That may be non-optimal I'll grant but it should work for most purposes. > >Lastly... 5.3 has been working brilliantly for me on every system I > >installed it on. 5.4 is looking even better. > > I am finding them both to be slower than 4.x, and am still encountering > some quirky hangs and some ports that won't build. YMMV, of course. Always. Best we can do is help out by submitting detailed reports when we encounter these quirky hangs and ports issues and, when skill allows, submit patches to fix things. -Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
