From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 15:55:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 5F9F316A40F for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:55:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njm@njm.f2s.com) Received: from outmail.freedom2surf.net (outmail1.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D2443D46 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:55:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njm@njm.f2s.com) Received: from ariel.njm.f2s.com (i-195-137-21-170.freedom2surf.net [195.137.21.170]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86892501A8 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:55:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from ariel.njm.f2s.com (localhost.njm.f2s.com [127.0.0.1]) by ariel.njm.f2s.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9CFtP7L028986 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:55:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from njm@ariel.njm.f2s.com) Received: (from njm@localhost) by ariel.njm.f2s.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9CFtPP9028985 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:55:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from njm) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:55:25 +0100 From: "N.J. Mann" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061012155525.GA28822@ariel.njm.f2s.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20061012152206.cttnwklqb4s00s8g@webmail.leidinger.net> <20061012141930.41607.qmail@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061012141930.41607.qmail@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:55:29 -0000 On Thu 12 Oct 07:19, Danial Thom wrote: > [...] > Maybe its just time for the entire FreeBSD team > to come out of its world of delusion and come to > terms with what every real-life user of FreeBSD > knows: In how ever many years of development, > there is still no good reason to use anything > other than FreeBSD 4.x except that 4.x doesn't > support a lot of newer harder. I am a _real-life_ user of FreeBSD and I am *very* happy with FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and before that 6.1-STABLE. This particular machine is quite old - it's a 350MHz K6 - and I from a subjective point of view, FreeBSD 6.1 has been the fastest OS which has run on it. YMMV of course. Cheers, Nick. -- "We're predicting third stage shutdown at 11 minutes 42 seconds."