
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.
Konqueror most notably, and I'm having issues with KDE on 4.9, not 5.1. It works flawlessly on 5.1. I used the packages from the instalation cd.
That is one of the things I learnt early on, never use the packages off the CD. Download the Mini-iso and build the packages manually. You'll find that if you install the mini, sup to the latest ports cvs revision, a large number of those issues will disappear.