Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:22:54 +0200 From: Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se> To: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 or 5.0 ? Message-ID: <3EA6859E.8020206@snowfall.se> In-Reply-To: <20030423131623.Y632@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> References: <3EA67F9D.4030003@snowfall.se> <20030423131623.Y632@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz>
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My reason for installing 5.0 is that we will probably want to upgrade to 5.1 or maybe 5.2 when they arrive and I think that upgrading 5.0->5.2 is easier than 4.8->5.2. ? / Stefan William Palfreman wrote: >On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Stefan Cars wrote: > > > >>Hi! >> >>We are installing some new servers in our company and I'm thinking of >>installing 5.0 on them. What do you people think ? Is that to be too >>brave ? >> >> > >I did that once with Linux, between 2.2.19 and 2.4.2/3. When my boss >realised what I had done I nearly got fired. The experience has made me >morbidly afraid of doing other peoples beta testing for them in a >production environment, even if it seems fine in on my workstation and >on test servers. I now give it about to 18 months before testing new >major versions. Almost the only criteria I use is whether what I am >doing is so out of date that there is no longer a useful user base, >performance is worse and bugs are going unfixed. > >Do you have any reason to believe 4.8 won't work? > >Bill. > >
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