From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 21:15:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8FD16A556 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:15:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@voidmain.net) Received: from pgh.nepinc.com (pgh.nepinc.com [66.207.129.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E040A44006 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:45:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@voidmain.net) Received: from [192.168.97.222] (dhcp222.eng.nepinc.com [192.168.97.222]) (authenticated bits=0) by pgh.nepinc.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2SKjF0F054886; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:45:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd@voidmain.net) Message-ID: <4429A049.8080100@voidmain.net> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:44:57 -0500 From: Tom Grove User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Vella References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@voidmain.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:15:28 -0000 Joseph Vella wrote: >I notice a lot of references to version 4.x. Is there any overwhelming reason >why its use seems to be still popular. I'm wanting to set up a server (just >for play) on my home network using a PII machine. Am I better off using an >older version for such old equipment? If so, do any particular versions >stand out? > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I would certainly recommend going with 6.x. The reason that many of our servers still run 4.x is that 5.x got a bad reputation and there really is no upgrade path from 4.x to 6.x. 5 and 6 default to using UFS2 and 4 uses UFS so, IMHO it's better to rebuild and taking a few hundred users offline for a couple of hours whilst this happens isn't fun. That's my scenario...I'm sure others have totally different reasons. -Tom