From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 13:30: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nerds4rent.com (ns2.freedomnet.com [198.240.104.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A9314BEA for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@freedomnet.com) Received: from tech (tech.nerds4rent.com [198.240.104.20]) by mail.nerds4rent.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/antispam) with SMTP id QAA18005 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:44:35 -0500 (EST) X-Envelope-To: From: "Kelly Yancey" To: Subject: 4.0-current VS 3.1-stable? Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:31:04 -0500 Message-ID: <000801be6686$4ed22bc0$1468f0c6@tech.freedomnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been using FreeBSD since 2.1.5 and am familiar with the whole idea that -stable is for servers, -current is for developers. I've always restricted myself to -stable at work (Internet servers). But I am setting up a server for someone else who already has a few linux servers (recent...they went with linux because the kid setting them up worked part time there and I'm just a mere consultant :( ). The problem is that I *know* they are going to be comparing these machines to each other. I like the fact the FreeBSD is stable, and they are servers, so my first inclination is 3.1-stable. But I read the freebsd-current mailing list daily and am envious of all the new features going into it (new ATA code, many bug-fixes, etc). The bug-fixes mainly interest me because I can't have anything go wrong if I want to convert all of their other servers over to FreeBSD too. Now, I don't read the -stable mailing list any more, so I don't know if a) these bug fixes only apply to new bugs in 4.0 or b) have been backported to 3.1-stable? My other rationalization for even considering 4.0-current is that it is such a recent split. It would seem that the two branches couldn't be that far from each other yet. So, please pardon my new spin on an old question, I'm looking for someone with some more insight into the current state of both -current and -stable (as of 3/4/99) to perhaps share a bit of that insight. The truth is that I won't be installing FreeBSD there for probably another 2 days (perhaps Soren's new ATA driver will have DMA support by then :) ...they still use IDE, yuk). I really appreciate the help, Kelly ~kbyanc@posi.net~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message