freebsd stable - Sep 2013 - FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The 
improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling 
messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing 
lists. It''s never clear until the release drops whether these are 
actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual 
systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone.

--Brett Glass

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> I have just upgraded two virtual machines running on ESXi. They are i386
> with 256Mb of RAM and one CPU, with just a few ports installed (sudo and
> screen and dependencies). They don't do much job (low-traffic
authoritative
> nameservers for a dozen of domains). I upgraded by freebsd-update. I
don't
> see any problems so far. Also my laptop is 9-STABLE amd64 (currently at
> r255867) and I do not have any more problems than usual (the unfortunate
> AR9285 wifi adapter).
> Marko Cupa??
I've been looking for Atheros support in FreeBSD, especially HEAD.

In my case it's an MSI motherboard, Z77 MPOWER, with onboard Ethernet chip
Realtek 8111E and wifi chip Atheros AR9271.

It looks like AR9271 and AR9285 are supported in NetBSD-current, you can view
NetBSD man pages online.

I intend to try, not to abandon FreeBSD: update to 9.2-RELEASE on older MSI
motherboard and build FreeBSD-current for the Z77 MPOWER.



Tom