From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 18:34:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1B616A4DE for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3C843D7D for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:34:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6I00C4WU909QF0@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:34:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6I00E88U90IRD0@pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:34:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J6I00GPAU8ZYO80@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:34:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 19857 invoked from network); Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:34:11 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:34:11 +0000 Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:34:10 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: To: Eduardo Meyer Message-id: <45215BA2.6040703@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: stable@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:34:35 -0000 Eduardo Meyer wrote: > "if your server is re-imaged with 6.0 vs the 5.4 version currently > installed we will not be able to support this. We have found that the > versions after 5.4 are inherantly unstable. Please let us know what > course of action you would like to take." EV1Servers has never been a major supporter of FreeBSD -- back when they were RackShack, it took a petition of several hundred people before they started offering FreeBSD at all. I wonder if they'll start offering more recent FreeBSD releases next month after FreeBSD 5.4 becomes unsupported... Colin Percival