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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:52:05 -0500
From:      "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        "'Colin Percival'" <cperciva@freebsd.org>, "'Eduardo Meyer'" <dudu.meyer@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: EV1 Servers makes me sick
Message-ID:  <007001c6e653$e0f38e90$0202fea9@SURGIENT.COM>
In-Reply-To: <45215BA2.6040703@freebsd.org>

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Colin Percival wrote:
> 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... 
> 
I know I was able to request (from ThePlanet, which merged with EV1) a
FreeBSD-6.1 system,
 and they didn't give me the "unsupported" line.

(this was within the last month for one of my clients).

LER


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