From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 24 19:44:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D5516A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:44:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4852943D49 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:44:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j3OJiaK3021533; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:44:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost)j3OJiaJG021530; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:44:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lexi.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:44:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Patrick Dung In-Reply-To: <20050424175543.71041.qmail@web51805.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20050424151517.O68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20050424175543.71041.qmail@web51805.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.544, required 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.06, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:44:40 -0000 On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Patrick Dung wrote: > I have read the recent status report. > IMHO, FreeBSD 5-stable is still not as stable as 4.x series. FreeBSD-5 > will have a short livetime when FreeBSD-6 comes. Ah, the "word on the street"; the usual claims without facts to back them. 5.x's undue and unjust reputation is precisely one of the reasons why 6.x is coming so soon. The other reasons have been outlined by Scott in a string of emails. Search the archives, if you are interested. If there is something you know about "5.x's stability" that we do not, please go ahead and share it with us. > May someone who work in large companies tell us their experience that > FreeBSD 4 or 5 is installed for servers now, please? At work, we have dozens of machines running 5.3 right now. In fact, my work is drawing up plans to phase out our last handful of 4.x servers. Cheers, Andy | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >