From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 04:11:48 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 7565A16A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 04:11:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC3E43D2D for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 04:11:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael2043@comcast.net) Received: from server (c-24-10-148-239.client.comcast.net[24.10.148.239]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <2004100104114701500o4olge>; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 04:11:48 +0000 From: "Michael G. Goodell" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:12:36 -0600 Message-ID: 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Subject: Last Question On Which Release Is Best For Production X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: michael2043@comcast.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:11:48 -0000 First of all, Thank you to those who replied to my original post about which FreeBSD Release is the most stable for a production system. I would still like to ask for clarification on one last item. Almost invariably the reply to my post asking which FreeBSD release is *the* most stable for a production environment was 4.10 is *the* best choice for a production system and that I could wait for 5.3 to become marked as STABLE in the coming months. I assume this information is taken from: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html that shows 5.2.1 and 4.10 as the two releases. My question is this: I currently run 5.1 (uname -a yields: 5.1-RELEASE-p17) and I read at the page http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html it states that 5.1 is Frozen and also states (not officially supported) - Does this mean that I am using a release that is not supported at all any longer and I should upgrade to 5.3 or will my 5.1 release still have security patches and such applied to it and eventually become production worthy. Am I just missing out on functionality by sticking with 5.1 and not moving up to 5.3? Moreover, *if* I choose to move to 5.3 (when it is ready for prime time) can I change my cvsupfile and then rebuild my kernel and world to the new 5.3 release? Thanks, Michael