From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 23 11:00:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28592 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from support.centercomp.com (root@[206.129.174.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28561 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@clean.net) Received: from ns1.clean.net (corv-17.e-z.net [206.129.174.67]) by support.centercomp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA08310 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980723105943.007d2940@clean.net> X-Sender: eric@clean.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:59:43 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Eric Hake Subject: Re: Upgrading In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980722171241.0081b330@mx.serv.net> References: <19980723062353.48912@welearn.com.au> <3.0.5.32.19980722130055.0081c410@mx.serv.net> <3.0.5.32.19980722042047.0081abb0@mx.serv.net> <3.0.5.32.19980722042047.0081abb0@mx.serv.net> <19980723032132.08184@welearn.com.au> <3.0.5.32.19980722130055.0081c410@mx.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>Personally I don't see any need to upgrade if 2.2.6 is working fine as >>it is. I tend to be one of those people who sit back and wait for the >>screams of pain to die down before deciding if there is any real >>incentive to upgrade, and 2.2.6 is pretty solid. I might keep upgrading >>a few individual packages, but that's no sweat. I bought the subscription with 2.2.5, and then 2.2.6 came out, so I put a hold on my subscription until 3.0 comes out... I'll get the CDs for that, and try it out on a clean machine, but I agree about waiting for the "screams of pain to die down" comment... I'll probably wait a bit before launching it on production machines... Eric (and his 2 bits) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message