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This is why Ubuntu and other Linux distributions are still better. They actually get bugs fixed.

I sometimes have to patch the sources with change sets from HEAD or STABLE to get bug fixes.

Interesting, my experience with Ubuntu (2007-2010) was that each time I run update it simply replaced old bugs with new ones.

What are you talking about? FreeBSD ships fixes for errata and security issues.

nope. only sec patches are applied. Updates are infrequent.

qlogic drivers had bugs in 10.0 which crash the system. Fully updated 10.0 is still affected.

And now we have 10.1. You're speaking nonsense.

I'm most certainly not, miss/mister.

The point holds for 10.1. A bug in 10.1 will only be fixed in 10.2.

Of course things get fixed. And they don't bring the system down like they do in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.

Perhaps you could also take a quick look at my other reply regarding qlogic.

My system is still crashing consistently with a fully updated 10.0.

It's only a question of time before I find something which crashes 10.1.

> And they don't bring the system down like they do in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.

They don't bring the system down in Linux, either. Stop spreading FUD.

No, they're right. Linux systems don't panic because of broken drivers after an update, they keep running properly.

FreeBSD sometimes completely stops booting on your hardware or turns unstable for no good reason. (search on google for posts from people who can't boot FreeBSD 8.x on hardware which was running 6.x or 7.x without the slightest bug)

FreeBSD can crash your system because of an unstable driver after a major upgrade like 9.2 to 9.3.

You can see they're right, "FreeBSD doesn't take your system down like Linux", it's much worse.

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