From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 02:35:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0968316A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 02:35:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charade.trit.org (charade.trit.org [65.19.139.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA2043D4C for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 02:35:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@charade.trit.org) Received: by charade.trit.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BB4D793; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:35:06 +0000 From: Andy Miller To: Arno Haverlach Message-ID: <20040425093506.GA28941@charade.trit.org> References: <1082881615.6336.0.camel@stupid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1082881615.6336.0.camel@stupid> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-Advocacy: Use FreeBSD. X-PGP-Key: 8982ACB9 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 70CC 757F 49BB 0ED4 925C 5BA3 EC6C BF9B 8982 ACB9 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What version of freebsd.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:35:09 -0000 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:26:55AM +0200, Arno Haverlach wrote: > Currently were going to reinstall all servers we have from redhat 9 to > freebsd because redhat 9 is EOL... >=20 > But after reading a few mails here that 4.9 is most likely not supported > for a long time.. what version should we take then? >=20 > We will be using it for multiple servers (mail, database, app, web > etc..) >=20 It depends. Most people will tell you that 4.9 will be the best version to= use for a production environment, and they would be right. However, the 4.x br= anch won't be around forever. Some day in the not so distant future, 5.x will go to -stable. If you want proven reliability, go with 4.9. If you think you might want t= o=20 upgrade to 5.x in the near future, you might want to use 5.2 so you don't h= ave to hassle upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. I have personally been using 5.x since it was still only -current. I've had no problems on any 5.x-release system= s, they've always preformed well. I hope this helps you decide. Good luck with your switch. -- Andy Miller --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAi4ZI7Gy/m4mCrLkRAs4aAKCvfjc79xBHlB5LuWf8KuNR07gXJACg5SPS Jk+xU07KdBGXRWz/Z6NL9YA= =vCz5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--