From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 18:03:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FBF16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:03:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD2F43D46 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:03:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-246-51.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.246.51]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8UI3Moo096642 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <415C4A67.3000801@mac.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:03:19 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: michael2043@comcast.net References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Which FreeBSD For A Production System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:03:29 -0000 Michael G. Goodell wrote: > Which release of FreeBSD is best for a production environment? I am aware of > the different branches of development: CURRENT, STABLE, RELEASE and I > *think* I understand the meaning of each from what I have read. Perhaps not > since I am writing this question! But, what I would like to know is when I > am setting up a production system, or desktop for that matter, which is > considered *THE* most stable of the choices in versions. Is it in the 4.x > branch, 5x etc... The most stable version of FreeBSD available today is 4.10. If your priority is to get something that will work, stay up, and not have to fiddled with, go with that. If you've got some time available, beta-testing 5.3 would be very helpful. In a matter of a few weeks, 5.3 is going to become -STABLE. It would be easier to stay up-to-date in the future if you go with 5.3. -- -Chuck