i stand corrected... but even so, alpha and beta in this respect should be 
stable as they come from the -1-5 tree and contain bug fixes etc.... or did i 
get this wrong too?

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> 
> > > > perfect..no trouble:) After i changed one of my box 1.5.3ALPHA..
> > >
> > > Right.  Beta / Alpha kernels will produce unexpected results.
> >
> > > The reality is that even on big important production servers you'll want
> > > to leave -release behind and upgrade a netbsd-1-[x] snapshot to get a
> > > _LOT_ of important fixes, especially security fixes.
> >
> > except NetBSD 1.5.3_ALPHA *is* the latest stable release of 1.5
> 
> Actually, the latest on the netbsd-1-5 branch is now NetBSD 1.5.3_RC1
> (for release candidate 1).
> 
> Frederick
>