Peter I. Hansen wrote:

>> I just wish the well-known bugs were fixed before a release.
>>
>>   -jm
> 
> 
> Are there many such well-known bugs? There must be a reason for these to 
> remain unfixed before this release?

If there are, it would be nice to get them fixed. FreeBSD has gotten a 
lot of bad image for releasing 5.3 with serious known bugs (e.g. 
nonfunctioning ule, gvinum raid5, error in building jails, etc.).