From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 05:24:00 2003 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 3961337B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 05:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jocke.transit.net (jocke.globalwire.se [213.136.34.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B87543FBD for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 05:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@snowfall.se) Received: from snowfall.se (h96n1fls35o1122.telia.com [217.211.14.96]) by jocke.transit.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A817B7E9; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:23:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3EA6859E.8020206@snowfall.se> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:22:54 +0200 From: Stefan Cars User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Palfreman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3EA67F9D.4030003@snowfall.se> <20030423131623.Y632@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> In-Reply-To: <20030423131623.Y632@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 4.8 or 5.0 ? 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: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:24:00 -0000 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doing is so out of date that there is no longer a useful user base, 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. > >