From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 08:50:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7624B37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5A343F75 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:50:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-91-236-204.san.rr.com [66.91.236.204]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5A24368D; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:50:32 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Daniela , Kris Kennaway Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:50:30 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200303212037.46322.dgw@liwest.at> <200303231120.15652.wes@softweyr.com> <200303242018.43648.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <200303242018.43648.dgw@liwest.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303260850.30970.wes@softweyr.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-26.1 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lots of kernel core dumps X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:50:35 -0000 On Monday 24 March 2003 11:18, Daniela wrote: > On Sunday 23 March 2003 20:20, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > The reason for creating the 5.0 release is to make it easy for more > > developers and testers to jump onto the 5.x bandwagon by giving them > > a known (relatively) good starting point. Quite a number of problems > > have been fixed since 5.0-RELEASE; CURRENT is now generally much more > > stable, and nobody is going to spend time updating 5.0 which is > > essentially an "early access" release. > > > > You have to decide for yourself if this machine is too critical to > > run CURRENT, in which case it's probably best off running STABLE or > > the latest 4.x release branch, or if you want to update it to > > CURRENT, follow the CURRENT mailing list, and update again at known > > stable development points. It looks like right now is pretty good if > > you want to jump. > > > > At any rate, thanks for your tenacity. We really do appreciate the > > contributions of everyone. > > Well, it's just a home server. I don't mind a few crashes, but security > is important for me. What do you think, should I go back to -stable? > FreeBSD is the world's best OS, I want to see it succeeding and I want > to help as much as possible. I have two machines at home and run STABLE on my workstation, which is also our 'group server' for the home. I have current on a crash test box that used to be my workstation 6 years ago, a K6/233 I can't imagine not having. If you're similarly hardware-rich, I'd recommend a similar approach. If you have only the one box, I personally would probably run CURRENT and be careful about when to run CVSup. Good luck! -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com