From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 04:48:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A5DA9D2 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22b.google.com (mail-ie0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3692349 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:48:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f171.google.com with SMTP id x19so19095233ier.2 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:48:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=o3COxkv6q6dg2Ai+8EcY+ipA8gUtoAOfXRWsBlSLp2s=; b=yEddDjLptsTRHk3V082lX3YXSMjQ0gUee8Qaeg1inzWELjaU3mbv+E17HiQcReLihB xsSBNulzROCZx067Na+h7mq6zCHwyKk8QcmXbtqGBnMQ+ukIBQrrmFgoLXTiMRYYARB/ aft08QIJEkoTma6UBDxGBv0/uoxxCuBAyM6KV0LOu0L7K8vFn4xcNySwZ9kjuNBiIdv/ DONbJMIsK3HGnOSkKkcKatBcls3hMBSGQGs1JMGv6RGIAy+W8pi2MYapBpzky94U/c27 t9xHOTockxHP3fxgoyA+5+2VSyg3BO/ZZeWp+UdHBNFWzeRODPGr/xdzV+Cu31Qle+Rb 1tTQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.117.71 with SMTP id kc7mr10812085igb.35.1416026929381; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:48:49 -0800 (PST) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.7.169 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:48:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:48:49 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0PO4S0y7g7akgUIXze19Tsv83MM Message-ID: Subject: Re: best overall upgrade from 8.x? From: Kevin Oberman To: Royce Williams Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:48:50 -0000 On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Royce Williams wrote: > I have some 8.x boxes that I'm looking to start planning to transition > before 8.4 is likely to go EOL next year. > > All other things being equal, what's the general consensus on where to > upgrade to from 8.x ... 9.x, or 10.x? > > I do know that YMMV, and I also know that 10.x is likely to be > supported longer. I'm just looking for people's overall impressions. > > Royce > I'd wait a month or so and, if no problems that might impact you pop up, I'd go with 10.1 as it is an extended support release and will be supported until sometime in 2017. I have been running 10 for many months and all of my few systems are either running recent 10.1-STABLE or 10.1 release. If you have internally developed code, I'd suggest starting to test it when built with CLANG. While GCC is still available as a port, CLANG is the only base system compiler and will get the bulk of the support. Without a bit more information on the nature and workload of the systems, it's not possible to give any more specific recommendations. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com