Kevin Oberman wrote: >>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:41:51 +0100 >>From: Ben Laurie <ben_at_algroup.co.uk> >> >>Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >> >>>>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:06:03 +0100 >>>>From: Ben Laurie <ben_at_algroup.co.uk> >>>> >>>>Kevin Oberman wrote: >>>> >>>>>Has any A or T series ThinkPad owner built a new CURRENT system over the >>>>>past week? >>>> >>>>Note that mine is RELENG, not CURRENT. I'm happy to migrate if its >>>>thought useful. >>> >>> >>>RELENG or RELEASE? I really can't recommend RELEASE for a laptop because >>>so many fixes have been made since then to CardBus, interrupt routing, >>>and several other things. Current is a bit of a crap-shoot, but is >>>semi-frozen at this time and is generally pretty stable. >> >>RELENG. > > > Slightly better than release, but mostly just RELEASE+Security patches, > so the CardBus and devd fixes and enhancements are not there. Current is > a little bit frightening, but I would not try running RELEASE on a > laptop and RELENG_5_0 does not really look much better. > > One minor note: current newfs now defaults to UFS2. This is probably no > problem, but it does make rolling back to V4 pretty difficult. Existing > UFS1 partitions are unaffected. This is not an issue for me, I haven't ever had 4 on this laptop. I believe I heard 5.1 is in the works - perhaps I should just hang fire for that? Any idea what the ETA is? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert WoodruffReceived on Tue Apr 22 2003 - 02:11:40 UTC
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