From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 10 20:39:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F90106566B for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:39:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EB78FC1A for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E61AEB5698; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:39:07 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3514E4C8005; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:39:07 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yh4tAFURiGnb; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:39:07 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl56-135.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.183.135]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16444C8004; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:39:06 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9AKd5JV096178 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:39:05 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9AKd3bI096177; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:39:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Polytropon References: <13EB5F63-E8D2-47EA-8E56-F052B697EBB8@olivent.com> <20091009214032.2cecf345.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:38:56 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20091009214032.2cecf345.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:40:32 +0200") Message-ID: <87skdr6l27.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: Marwan Sultan , Mikel King , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: best FBSD version for commercial use. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:39:09 -0000 --=-=-= On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:40:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > But allow me a follow-up question: Is 8.0-RC1 already recommendable > for a home desktop, or would 7.2 be the version of choice? I'm asking > this because of the many improvements especially the USB subsystem has > gotten in 8 which would be important for the "plug and play > experience" for USB devices... There are a few rough edges that you may or may not hit by testing the pre-release RC versions. They are mostly related to recent work in networking code, USB disk detection at boot time and a couple of other annoyances. So if you can help with the testing of these pre-release snapshots it may be worth to prepare for at least *some* problems with the latest 8.X-STABLE code. Having said that, the release engineering team is actively working to get these issues resolved. The FreeBSD Wiki shows a list of things that the RE team know as `being fixed and still being researched' at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/8.0TODO/#head-4fd8d27523492bffb9c0064bf41575c6db8fd194 Having said that, it is worth noting that if you can _help_ by running one of the RC versions and reporting back to us, you are more than welcome. The more testing the RC versions get, the greater number of pre-release issues we will discover and fix _before_ the final images are cut. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkrQ8OYACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7bkRACdFNWFz5Nu7ZZxJPPIXW22LXl/ WtQAn38yXFokFO3s1B73VtEsCmvYzFg1 =f3io -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--