Subject: Re: how stable is the current branch?
To: Tomoki NetBSD Mailing Lists <tomoki.netbsd.ml@gmail.com>
From: Denis Lagno <dlagno@rambler.ru>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/23/2005 00:04:12
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:34:16PM +0800, Tomoki NetBSD Mailing Lists scribed:
> I have started playing with NetBSD recently.  I am coming from a
> FreeBSD background where the use of -Current branch is not recommended
> unless you are a tester or a developer.  Should I assume the same
> holds for NetBSD?  Or is -current branch stable enough?

For playground and desktop machine it is quite stable:
# uptime 
12:00AM  up 13 days, 4 hrs, 6 users, load averages: 1.18, 1.14, 1.16

I tracked -current ~2 years, there can be some HEADS UP periods
or annoying bugs, but most of the time you will be lucky to find it stable.