NewsForge : FreeBSD 5.3 is "stable" but not production-ready

[interfasys]

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/1518217

[rhoekman]

Read the comments below that article and you see this reviewer is not up to par. He's judging this article of a bad driver for his network card and starts bashing BSD. It's an OS crtitic not a real system admin so I wouldn't take it serious. I'm running BSD in a production enviroment since 5.1 which is actually considered a Beta. I never had lockups whatsoever.

[interfasys]

Thanks for sharing your experience. That's why I posted this article here, to get reactions from experienced people.

[rhoekman]

If you really want to be sure this guy had no clue what he was saying you can read the comments on the same article at osnews.com:

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=9214

[wdv]

Here another "real" FreeBSD administrator. As rhoekman already stated this reviewer was just bashing.

Been happily running the 5.x range for quite some time now.

[Chrysalis]

agree with the above 5.3 is production ready.