From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 13:18:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F38D16A41F for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:18:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Zimmerman.Eric@con-way.com) Received: from ljcqs131.cnf.com (mail-cluster.cnf.com [63.230.177.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0E243D62 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:18:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Zimmerman.Eric@con-way.com) Received: from ljcqs131.cnf.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cnf.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66171838F2; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ciies004.conway.prod.con-way.com (cnfdcx-131-slb-01-in.cnf.com [10.0.108.131]) by ljcqs131.cnf.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86E91838E6; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from qgaes001.conway.prod.con-way.com ([10.40.10.68]) by ciies004.conway.prod.con-way.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:18:51 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:18:49 -0500 Message-ID: <12AAD6CC50A25841834F43955F39B66E02571E53@qgaes001.conway.prod.con-way.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x? Thread-Index: AcXVdks4tMgfo7+PSciiklZ7PK/V3QAAWN8g From: "Zimmerman, Eric" To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2005 13:18:51.0667 (UTC) FILETIME=[D0417630:01C5D578] Cc: Subject: RE: General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:18:55 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Thomas T. Veldhouse > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 08:00 > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x? >=20 > I run a very small home office network and domain off of my DSL. > Currently, I have a FreeBSD 5.4p8 firewall (pf) running. I am really > not having any issues, but sometimes the machines gets a bit stodgy for > no solid reason [load shouldn't be that high]. I have considered the > jump to 6.0, but I have held back because of the .0 stigma surrounding > FreeBSD releases. What do people think in this case? I have heard that > 6.0 is considered much more stable than later 5.x releases; is this true > [in context of my usage patterns]? I just upgraded from 5.4 release to 6.0RC1 on my home network (running Postfix+Amavisd, Apache, etc) and it wasn't too painful. So far 6.0 has been great (I have it on a Dell 1850 server as well). My only issue with the 5.4 upgrade was some wrestling with OpenSSL (had a port installed in 5.4 that 6 didn't seem to like) and dealing with some stuff that was previously in ports, but is now built in (like portsnap). Once those nuances were resolved, things worked as expected. I got all my ports rebuilt via portmanager just to be safe. This was my first upgrade across major versions and overall it was not too bad. Based on things I have read here, the 6.0 release cannot be compared to the 5.0 release in terms of stability, etc. and so far that's held true. Back up your box and give it a whirl, I think you will like it! =3D) Eric