Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:47:23 -0500 From: Paul Root <ptroot@iaces.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: swhetzel@gmail.com, "Sandro Noel." <snoel@gestosoft.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Eriq <admin@tigergroup.org> Subject: Re: any ideas when 5.5 will be out Message-ID: <432F6A2B.8020202@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <432F42BA.8070507@samsco.org> References: <W5811423667218711127158196@webmail12> <432F132A.1060200@iaces.com> <432F42BA.8070507@samsco.org>
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I'm just stating my observations and my decisions on when I upgraded to a major revision. I started this back in the early 2.x.x days. I believe 2.2.1 is my first set of CDs. And I still have most all of them. I also put in the caveot that a lot of work is being concentrated on 6.x so times could be shorter. Personally, I may put 6.0 on a test machine, but I won't put it in production. I don't work that way. I will go to 5.5, I'm sure, on my servers. I update from source fairly regularly. And that was the original question: "Why would 5.5 come out after 6.0?" Scott Long wrote: > Paul T. Root wrote: > >> In the past, x.0 releases are meant for the adventurous >> not the production oriented. >> >> I never go before x.1. And I skipped 3.x completely. >> I just got my final server from 4.11 to 5.4 in July. >> >> 6.x is probably still 9-12 months away from prime time. >> But that's just a guess on my part. I do know that they >> are pushing on it harder than they did for 5.0. >> >> Sandro Noel. wrote: >> > > 6.0 is indeed receiving quite a bit of testing and bugfixing. It's > a bit presumptuous to make public claims that it's "9-12 months away," > though. I can appreciate the conventional wisdom of staying away from > N.0 releases, but we are putting quite a bit of effort into this one. > 6.1 is not going to be 9-12 months away either, nor will 6.2. The 6.x > line is generating quite a bit of excitement and will be a very good set > of releases. > > Scott
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