Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:02:54 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? Message-ID: <44haoeken5.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <50B105AE.4050008@tundraware.com> (Tim Daneliuk's message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:36:46 -0600") References: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> <50B10185.2010500@bnrlabs.com> <50B105AE.4050008@tundraware.com>
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Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> 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.
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