From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 10:54:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60D7151BB for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09421; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:54:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:54:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Michael Lucas Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.5-stable ? In-Reply-To: <199910121704.NAA45110@blackhelicopters.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote: > Traditionally, the best time to get on a FreeBSD branch has been when > it hits *.5. Is this still true with 3.x? Huh? There was no 2.5-RELEASE. I am pretty sure there were no 1.5 releases either. There have been 2.*.5 releases, but the numbering scheme has been slightly altered w/ the advent of the 3.* branch. > With 2.2.x, we has several months of "reliable stable" operation. > I'm just concerned because I'm waiting to upgrade some 2.2x systems > until 3.5. As far as I know, there aren't any major stability issues w/ 3.2 or 3.3. I don't however use NFS and many other things so maybe I've missed those. I think you are probably safe to upgrade, maybe a machine at a time, to 3.3. > I'd rather not go through the upgrade just to face the same software > backporting issues I'm currently facing with 2.x systems after only a > couple months. This is a separate issue and I'm not sure what the problems are w/ the software. 2.2 is old and a.out and a.out support will disappear. My guess is that most of the ports will still compile on 2.2* but there are certainly those which will not. We could help you decide more if we knew exactly what issues you were having w/ software. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message