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A comment on FreeBSD 10.4-Release. Parent comment

Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by kqr on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:41PM (#15393747)
Keep in mind you need a good base system in order for the third party applications to run reliably.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by danieldk on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:14PM (#15394634)
But how can we measure the quality of the base system? I tried FreeBSD again a while back, but there were pretty bad bugs even in basic UNIX utilities like grep [1], some utilities + UTF-8, and I also had some kernel panics.

[1] I reported one of them in the FreeBSD bug tracker (+ patch). OpenBSD was actually really quick to solve this (I think tedu@ patched it), while the bug lingered for a long time with no activity on FreeBSD's end.

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