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   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   
      
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