On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:32:17PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> > There's no such odd/even number policy with FreeBSD-- I think you're >> > thinking of another OS ;) >> > >> maybe something got stuck in my head with the move from 4 to 5. > > Yes, 5 was the Great Leap where true SMP was introduced. In the > many-year-long development cycle, so many other things (IIRC geom > and suspend/resume, among others) that the change from 4 to 5 was > completely disruptive. We resolved to release more often so as to > never be in that situation again. (Granted, probably no architectural > change will ever be that sweeping again.)
Minor correction. Suspend/resume was around in late 3 and 4, though the Nomad code in 3 was a bit unstable. It worked well in 4, but was dependent on APM which was already being replaced by ACPI. By the time 5.2 was actually released, many systems were being shipped without APM, so could not run FreeBSD. (APM was fairly optional, but ACPI systems really need ACPI support.) ACPI was one of several things that forced 5.0 to be released even though RE and everyone running current knew it had big problems. It i also why 5.0 and 5.1 were clearly marked as "development" releases not for production. I really hope to never see a release as ugly as 5. 9.0 may have issues as did 7.0 and 8.0, but for most, it works quite well. I m happily running it on a couple of systems. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
