Re: Pi4 to Pi5 migration

On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 04:05:01 -0000 (UTC)
<bp@www.zefox.net> 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.

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