Re: Why I should use FBSD 4.9/10 and not 5.2.1?
From: Kris Kennaway (kkenn_at_xor.obsecurity.org)
Date: 05/05/04
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Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:01:00 -0000
On 2004-05-05, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kkenn@xor.obsecurity.org> wrote:
>>
>> In other words, the instability was caused by a buggy BIOS on his SMP
>> hardware that just happened to be tickled by the newer version of
>> FreeBSD.
>
> This sentence exactly means that recent FreeBSD-4 versions are buggy for
> all practical purposes.
No, it doesn't. It means that the BIOS is buggy, period.
Also, this was just an example, you can't generalize from it.
Kris
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