On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:40:48PM -0200, T?rgan Flores de Siqueira wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:01:49PM +0000, Chris wrote: > > > >>4 - compatiblity, I remember using 5.2.1 and pretty much all software > >>worked well in that and then they did the bind defaulting to base and > >>libs version jump, why wasnt this done in 5.0 so 3rd party apps could > >>adjust, now we have a situation where most stuff that worked in 4.x > >>worked well in 5.1 and 5.2.1 but then broke in 5.3 so effectively 5.3 > >>was liek a new major version over 5.2.1. > > > >5.2.1 was clearly marked as a "developer preview" release and you were > >warned not to rely on it for production use. As a snapshot of > >FreeBSD-CURRENT, binary compatibility is not guaranteed and often > >needs to be broken in the course of development. > > > >Kris > > Just adding a note: I regularly use FreeBSD on a Toshiba notebook, and > switched from 4.x to 5.x to benefit from cardbus support. > Well, I started with 5.2.1 and all things did well. Since then, I'm > trying to track 5-STABLE with no success. Starting with 5.3-RELEASE, > the ACPI stopped to work, as well as did the rl driver. > So, I switched back to 5.2.1.
Sorry to hear that - I hope you submitted bug reports so that someone can try to fix this, otherwise you might be stuck with 5.2.1 forever. Kris
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