From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 8:22: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080A137BAFD for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (root@rac6.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.146]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20416; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:21:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA27506; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:21:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27502; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:21:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac6.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:21:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Christoph Sold Cc: jschoch@siscom.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD v3.5!!!!!!!!! In-Reply-To: <3950DA21.20612634@i-clue.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If I had to rebuild a production box completely, I would have to put about > a week worth of time into it. Upgrading a production box would cause > non-acceptable downtimes. Upgrading 3.x-S to 3.5-S can be done using > CVSuping and make buildworld while in production. make installworld needs > a couple of minutes in single-user mode only. Hardly anybody will notice > if I do this at, say, 6 a.m. > > IMHO, the 3-Stable branch has at least another year of live in it -- > although it should receive critical fixes only now. > > Just my $.05. > -Christoph Sold > > james scoch wrote: > > > I noted in your announcements that FreeBSD v.3.5 is due sometime after > > 20JUN00. > > I couldn't believe my ears when I saw that. v4.0 seems to be working > > quite well since I installed it earlier this year. > > Sorry fellows, but even after celebrating my 19th birthday anniversary > > this past February 29, I still haven't learned to resist temptation. > > As he said, 3.5 is only getting bugfixes, and not many new features... 4.x is considered by most to be the more stable branch, and it's faster in my own experience. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message