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As I remember FreeBSD 5.0 (and 5.1 and 5.2 for that matter) were always labelled -RELEASE (and not -STABLE, that didn't happen until 5.3). It was a chicken and
by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
As I remember FreeBSD 5.0 (and 5.1 and 5.2 for that matter) were always labelled -RELEASE (and not -STABLE, that didn't happen until 5.3).
It was a chicken and egg kind of problem, where a lot of stuff in the new kernel was rewritten/redone, among other things to get rid of the GIANT lock and enable SMP support in the kernel. There was also a new threading implementation, a new I/O block layer and all sorts of stuff that needed more exposure.