From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 20:07:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C355A1065674 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclark46@earthlink.net) Received: from elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8391F8FC1E for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclark46@earthlink.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=kO5FD4FJ5PzUM/2mc9yMsJllJ/g2jGATc+VOfaErswnw9908dudLMTP9D2lN4Rwr; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [24.144.77.185] (helo=joker.seclark.com) by elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K3zFy-0007D5-PE; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:06:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4846F5D9.7000408@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:06:49 -0400 From: Stephen Clark User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: a437fbc6971e80f61aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec7922fecf67be25bf780ff0836052b51eb3350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.144.77.185 Cc: Jo Rhett , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sclark46@earthlink.net List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:07:00 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Jo Rhett wrote: >> Okay, I totally understand that FreeBSD wants people to upgrade from >> 6.2 to 6.3. But given that 6.3 is still experiencing bugs with things >> that are working fine and stable in 6.2, this is a pretty hard case to >> make. > > Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you? > >> >> This is also a fairly significant investment in terms of time and >> money for any business to handle this ugprade. It totally understand >> obsoleting 5.x now that 7.x is out. But 6.2 is barely a year old... >> > > The expectation is always that newer versions of a stable branch will > have few regressions, and thus upgrading is a low risk. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Can just the kernel be upgraded or does all of user space have to be upgrades to. How would someone recommend upgrading 500 hundred remote sites spread throughout the US? Thanks, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)