Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:53:15 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability Message-ID: <20051017185315.GA94004@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200510171505.j9HF5YQU030521@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <200510171505.j9HF5YQU030521@lurza.secnetix.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:05:34PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote: > > The release schedule for FreeBSD 6.0, on the FreeBSD Web site, doesn't show a > > projected date for the finished product. How close is it? > > I can't speak for the RE team, but from watching the BETA > and RC progress and reports in the mailing lists ... my > guess is that 6.0-RELEASE will be out very soon. Maybe in > only a few days. > > > We are (believe it > > or not) still running and building production servers with 4.11, > > Same here. > > > We're running our own tests on RC1, but don't have a lot of spare servers to > > try it on. So, it's worth asking: How stable is RC1 turning out to be on > > uniprocessor platforms? On SMP platforms? How is network and disk performance > > relative to 4.11? (When we tested 5.x, both network and file system > > performance were worse than that of 4.11.) > > FWIW, I'm running RELENG_6 on two machines (a notebook and > a server) for several weeks, updating every few days, and > putting some workload and various testing on them. So far > I have not encountered any serious problems that were not > resolved. So, stability seems to be very good; my feeling > is that 6.0 will be a _lot_ better than 5.0. A _lot_. Don't let the .0 confuse you. 6.0 is nothing *AT ALL* like 5.0 in terms of development history and quality. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDU/MbWry0BWjoQKURAgaRAKDUIjYAWyCRYnT8FjfPDcc6bHnP2wCg+/gi RF5NJ2B+2EPMQjX/Ky58KkY= =ouhx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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