Peter Jeremy wrote: ...
IMHO, just reading this mailing list will give you an overly negative view of FreeBSD's stability. My experiences are that FreeBSD 5.4 using a GENERIC kernel (or something close to it) is quite stable.
Second that. Based on the observable chatter around 5.x problem areas since its inception, I opted to keep plugging away with 4.x for a long time after it was marked "legacy". However, I also noted that over time, most reported problems ended up being solved (always a plus when evaluating a system's worthiness ;).
I recently began to seriously hammer on several test boxes with RELENG_5 (starting just before 5.4 PRE), and since I started doing that I haven't seen a single problem with a variety of mainstream Wintel hardware components. We plan to migrate all our 4.x production servers over the course of the summer, and are considering deploying a number of new ones.
I think that while there have been some outspoken critics of the 5.x branch, and there continue to be some minor rough spots, it is generally a very good system.
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