Subj : Re: Pi4 to Pi5 migration To : bp@www.zefox.net From : Ahem A Rivet's Shot Date : Tue Jun 18 2024 07:42:44 On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 04:05:01 -0000 (UTC) wrote: > IIRC 1.1.5.1 worked pretty well, as the last encumbered version. Am I > confused? The early un-encumbered versions were somewhat rough. > [encumbered meaning "contains AT&T code"] I started experimenting with 1.0 in December 1993 after having had Linux for some months (I bought SLS on a stack of floppy discs for £50 thinking that it wasn't a bad price for the floppies if it turned out to be useless). FreeBSD 1.0 was solid enough, rather more so than early Linux which had some nasty TCP/IP issues which didn't become obvious until I tried to set up a prototype dial up ISP. Early Linux was also horribly incoherently packaged - that set of floppies included source tarballs that didn't correspond to the binaries. Discovering that FreeBSD could build itself correctly was a breath of fresh air after battling Linux updates. A lot of old timers considered 1.1.5.1 to be the most stable release until late 4.x which because of the 5.0 debacle became extremely stable as the last non SMP kernel. Yahoo! (I worked for them for a while) stuck with 4.11 until well after 6.0 came out and then started a migration to Linux. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/ For forms of government let fools contest Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .