From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 5:52:44 2002 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 ACEED37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 05:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3AD443E97 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 05:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 8745 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2002 12:45:28 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-15.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (150.140.128.239) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 17 Oct 2002 12:45:28 -0000 Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9HCqjKw095162; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:52:45 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9HCqi3D095156; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:52:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:52:43 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jonathan Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade recommendations Message-ID: <20021017125243.GJ14331@hades.hell.gr> References: <200210161314120727.0B4D72FE@mail.speakeasy.net> <20021016181528.GB17604@grumpy.dyndns.org> <200210161512500640.0BBA12CA@mail.speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210161512500640.0BBA12CA@mail.speakeasy.net> X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-16 15:12, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >FreeBSD the hardest thing to beat into peoples heads has been "don't use > >-current on critical machines." > > Thanks for insisting on that too! I don't have, by any means, a > "critical" machine - it's just a play web site and mailing list - > but I do like to have them up, so perhaps I'll stay away for now. 5.0 is now very near to being released, and the team of people who are working on making it a stable enough system that is worthy of being cut in stone as 5.0-RELEASE will certainly be very grateful for extra testing. But you should only run -current if you have the time to follow the latest changes closely, since there are still a few bumpy points. Bearing that in mind, I have run -current at my workstation at home ever since I remember me switching to 3-current and it's not very difficult to keep it stable if you are cautious when upgrading to avoid the occasional periods of serious problems. Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message