Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:04:14 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Mikel King <mikel.king@olivent.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: best FBSD version for commercial use. Message-ID: <d36406630910091604p10da85abya2365538834fbf66@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5C9B3A2F-5C9F-42BD-A97A-0D2DBA1278B9@olivent.com> References: <SNT103-W3577DB3B33999A004C409D9ACB0@phx.gbl> <13EB5F63-E8D2-47EA-8E56-F052B697EBB8@olivent.com> <20091009214032.2cecf345.freebsd@edvax.de> <5C9B3A2F-5C9F-42BD-A97A-0D2DBA1278B9@olivent.com>
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2009/10/9 Mikel King <mikel.king@olivent.com> > > On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400, Mikel King <mikel.king@olivent.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or >>> two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and >>> rebuild the world to the current version of 8.x at the time. >>> >> >> So you would not recommend 8 (as RC1 at the state of the moment) >> for commercial use. Regarding your explaination, I do understand >> this. It's often mentioned that x.0 releases aren't "that good". >> >> But allow me a follow-up question: Is 8.0-RC1 already recommendable >> for a home desktop, or would 7.2 be the version of choice? I'm >> asking this because of the many improvements especially the USB >> subsystem has gotten in 8 which would be important for the "plug >> and play experience" for USB devices... >> >> >> >> > Well the general rule of thumb has always been that unless you NEED a > feature of the newest version it is best to continue running the existing > stable release on your mission critical production boxes. Once the current > release is passed the initial .0 stage most feel it is safe to adopt it in a > production environment. Sometimes this may take a little longer than > expected, but I would wait until 8.1 before I put it on my mission critical > production boxes. > > Cheers, > Mikel > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > definitely stay away from the 6.x branch now that 7.x is very stable. Apart from it been out of date I found 6 had quite a few serious performance issues on SMP systems for quite a few applications. 7 generally rocks, and 8 looks even better, however isn't quite there yet. I have seen a few issues on the usb stack. I'm sure these will get fixed shorty however I wouldnt want to use it in production quite yet
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