From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 19:03:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7078C6B for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:03:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A98A8FC12 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.52]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F9DA72A71 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:03:02 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 27023 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2012 19:03:01 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 3507, pid: 29939, t: 0.1717s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:13513 Received: from unknown (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Nov 2012 19:03:01 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.8]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB3C33C23; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:02:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id A212239843; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:02:54 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Tim Daneliuk Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? References: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> <50B10185.2010500@bnrlabs.com> <50B105AE.4050008@tundraware.com> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:02:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <50B105AE.4050008@tundraware.com> (Tim Daneliuk's message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:36:46 -0600") Message-ID: <44haoeken5.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:03:03 -0000 Tim Daneliuk writes: > On 11/24/2012 11:19 AM, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: >> I wouldn't >> blindly trust and drop an operating system on production servers, no >> matter how good the feedback from outside my organization sounds. > > In general, I'd agree with you. Certainly, that's been the case > with Linux, AIX, and so on over the years. I have a very small server of my own for the house, and I generally update it to major versions within a few weeks of updating. I think I had it on RELENG_9 within two months of 9.0 being released. As far as I recall, I had very few problems making the jump. > But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev > updates with FreeBSD thus far. The only breakage I am worried about > now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to > work just fine. For example, will my make.conf settings be properly > observed by the new tool chain? I wouldn't use the new toolchain for this server. The old toolchain is still the default anyway.