From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 21:42:53 2005 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 1B8BC16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:42:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF8843D41 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:42:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id j0BLgqee017672; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.245] (nfw1.codefab.com [199.103.21.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j0BLglbx026425; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:42:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:42:47 -0500 To: Paul Schmehl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS should we use? 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: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:42:53 -0000 On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch > (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with > no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. > > On this list I have seen comments about instability issues in 5.3. > These servers need to be stable. Should we install 4.10/11? Or move > up to 5.3? If the servers need to be stable, and you've been using 4.10 and are satisfied with it, *and* you don't have time to test 5.3 to achieve a similiar level of confidence, go with 4.10/4.11. However, it sounds like you've had some time to test 5.3, and such testing ought to give you feedback on how 4.x versus 5.x performs for your particular workload, and you can make a decision from there. I have a number of 4.x systems in production, and I won't upgrade them to 5 simply for the sake of updating, but new machines are getting 5.3. -- -Chuck