From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 8:21:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCA7151AB for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:21:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA48008; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37F22E50.7467E564@owp.csus.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:20:48 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jackson Donadel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Releases References: <00a201bf07b3$1bf143c0$c800000a@jackson.br.cahn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Jackson Donadel wrote: > > People, I had reading some mails from this, and from other sources, > and I see that some ppl still using 2.2.6 to 2.2.8, why they do this? > I think if I can update my system for the lastest version I will do. > Those versions are more stable that 3.3? > What happens. I don't think it's a matter of instability as it is that FreeBSD systems tend to stay up and going for insane amounts of time. If you need machines to be up 24x7 then taking them down for an upgrading is a pretty major event. At my last job we had machines up for well over a year ( some of which are now at almost two years ). -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message