New kernel - observations & reactions?

[Scott Granneman]

My company has installed the new Userland Manila beta with the new  
kernel on the following machines:

* Dual 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 Xserv
* Dual 2.66 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon Xserv
* 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac mini
* 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo Mac mini

All the above are running Leopard 10.5.3 except for the PowerPC, which  
is Tiger 10.4.11.

We experienced an incredible speed boost and a vast improvement in  
stability over the old kernel. Sites that were generating 500 type  
errors are no longer doing so. Static rendering is faster. Aside from  
updating from Regex to Re we haven't experienced issues.

We've reported a few small bugs that Qaliva is working on. They're  
minor, with easy workarounds. Oh - one annoyance: if you open a Mac OS  
X Save/Open dialog box from Frontier, then Frontier crashes.  
Fortunately, we can use scripts to save & open.

So far, so good. This has saved Frontier, in our opinion. Without  
this, it was looking pretty bleak.

How about anyone else?

Scott
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