Hey Andrew, On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:21:45 -0400, Andrew Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, thanks for the info. > > > Greetings! > > > > From what I gather, the 5.2-RELEASE was rather buggy and unstable (for > > a RELEASE anyway), and was quickly replaced by 5.2.1-RELEASE which was a > > considerable improvement. > > I've been using it as my main machine for some time and it works well. But > I'll definitely upgrade at some point. Right now I am testing on my > workstation as I my test machine is doing something else right now.
There were some considerable problems with specific ATA chipsets in 5.2-RELEASE that were fixed in 5.2.1. But if you don't have any problems, that's of course not a reason to upgrade. > > > You're sparked my curiosity; what kind of embedded system are you > > working on, pray tell? > > It's a theatrical lighting board. So far FreeBSD has satisfied all my > requirements, so I've been really happy. I come from the NetBSD side of > things. My distro is 18 megs plus my code and some other stuff. Ideally it > will all fit in under 100 megs and boot off a flash memory disk. It's fun > stuff, and should be done soon...... I have a 80MB Flash disk that boots with X and some graphical applications, also for an embedded application, 5.2-RELEASE-based too. Works like a charm! Arjan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
