Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 1st Nov 2003 19:40 UTC
Robert Watson posted another bi-weekly version of the FreeBSD 5.2 open issues list, slightly restructured. At this time, there are four "show stopper defects" listed: panics when building ata-raid arrays, ATAng crashdump causes disk corruption, pipe/VM corruption on Alpha, and lingering PSE instability. There are only 5 issues left of on the "required features" list: KSE support for sparc64, KSE support for alpha, Fine-grained network stack locking without Giant, MAC framework devfs path fixes, and ACL_MASK override of umask support in UFS.
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Go with 4.9. It's faster and more stable. On a single cpu box, you're not going to be missing too much unless you are into trying out the new security features like acls and mandatory access controls, witch aren't exactly for everyday folks, nor easy to use.
Just a side note, I prefer KDE, but I've found it to be (sadly) broken in a few minor, yet irritating places (I have filed the appropriate reports) so if you want a usable desktop system out of the box, use Gnome 2 instead.