From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 9 23:04:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8A0106568B for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:04:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716618FC0C for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so2431741fgg.13 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:04:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=IT8DGtHk/JOy+xwqtLglgq+hDOZkA5TV/hii1fPLWME=; b=wklpNITEoAuJpSUM/axJuVxIZfWx6DYQCOFKOoHL29YIfGo6EImXV1gvJI/ApnESYL hDVz0m30h0IMYilc7SrCl4AWWH0zKDo1dYzpXDwG7cxIs4K7JQYqPnd8Nhe2fOYJPDHo GVHDAr4yks/wgsKmL3axBbTMyv2oT4ZzvS1tk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Wn9+Ba27/7sJP6vxyRIp/e/GRyTGX/VtY2Z54QN485TCznPOiBoTNvuVhqvbfE74q2 Si870Tmb/0mmoYKsQbpIgd5HeRx//WSNBVM1NXF8MLu64G6JKu7r0CdwhGlG1qEATTwk mVNp/to2wuIeWdot7JYmiQKwReEkVuEsRj/sM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.179.91 with SMTP id c27mr174602hbg.51.1255129454263; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:04:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5C9B3A2F-5C9F-42BD-A97A-0D2DBA1278B9@olivent.com> References: <13EB5F63-E8D2-47EA-8E56-F052B697EBB8@olivent.com> <20091009214032.2cecf345.freebsd@edvax.de> <5C9B3A2F-5C9F-42BD-A97A-0D2DBA1278B9@olivent.com> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:04:14 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Mikel King Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Polytropon , FreeBSD Questions , Marwan Sultan Subject: Re: best FBSD version for commercial use. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:04:16 -0000 2009/10/9 Mikel King > > On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400, Mikel King >> 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