From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 16 15:15: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C8B37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:15:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63B443F85 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from master.gorean.org (12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com[12.234.22.23]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <20030316231501003001ts78e>; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 23:15:02 +0000 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:15:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton To: Tim Bishop Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: STABLE on a new production system In-Reply-To: <20030316215126.GA24916@raq15.uk2net.com> Message-ID: <20030316151219.N73850@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <20030316215126.GA24916@raq15.uk2net.com> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Tim Bishop wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm about to start building a new production server (web and e-mail > mainly) and I'm pondering which version of FreeBSD to install. All my > other productions machines are running either -STABLE or in the most > important cases a security branch. I follow this list, so I'm confident > enough to run -STABLE :-) Good, run -stable. :) > However, now FreeBSD 5.0 is out I'm unsure of what to install on a new > machine. I'm aware that 5.0 isn't geared towards production systems, > and I expect there could be some stability issues or problems building > ports. That said, if I opt for 4.8 it won't be that long until I'll be > looking at reinstalling/upgrading to get up to 5.2 and the new -STABLE. So > maybe just opting for 5.0 and bearing with it for the coming months is > the way to go? Regardless of cvs tags, an actual production-ready 5.x is at least a year away. Only run 5.x IF you can handle down time, debugging, and reading both freebsd-current and the source cvs commit list religiously. (And yes, this is meant to be scary.) HTH, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message