In message <Pine.LNX.4.31.0203131555220.19589-100000@uranus.terran>, "B. James 
Phillippe" writes:
>Hello,
>
>I would like to know what the general consensus is on the ability to "fall
>back" to a stable kernel when running in -current userspace.  I am a
>new-to-NetBSD convert from Linux :-) and my frame of referencce is that it
>was not uncommon to get "stuck in the middle" when trying to track
>development kernels; if the dev kernel was broken in some way that required
>booting into the stable kernel, some of the user-space bins/libs needed to
>be swapped as well.  I'm just curious to know if I'm in for a repeat
>experience if I attempt to track NetBSD-current.
>
My understanding is that that won't work well -- -current userland 
often relies on new kernel features that 1.5.x kernels don't have.

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