Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:08:18 -0800 From: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> To: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Cc: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ? Message-ID: <CAFuo_fzVxNVfkD8qAMSDwCm89aJagkDM2dkPZigjaYCrnZGAzg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201202281721.35827.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> References: <1330390351993-5520494.post@n5.nabble.com> <4F4C8A61.5010605@my.gd> <201202281721.35827.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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On Feb 28, 2012 4:13 AM, "Erich Dollansky" <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out. Currently, the machine here runs 8.3 and will stick to 8 until 10.0 or 10.1 will arrive at the scene. > > But for technical reasons, I have left one machine on 7 after the upgrade from 6 to 8 failed. It is a very old machine and some hardware support got dropped. > > Erich > > On Tuesday 28 February 2012 15:03:45 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > > On 2/28/12 1:52 AM, sw2wolf wrote: > > >> uname -a > > > FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #3: Fri Sep 30 > > > 15:23:56 CST 2011 > > > root@mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 > > > > > > I am using 8.2 for a long time. And it works VERY well. > > > > > > > > > Any suggestion is appreciated! > > > > > > > This is an entirely subjective question and one that only you can answer. > > > > For example, given the number of problem reports I'm seeing on the > > lists, I'm going to stick with the 8-STABLE branch for still a long > > time, likely until 9.1 or 9.2-RELEASE. > > > > You may want to reflect on the features you currently use and whether > > they've been improved in 9.0-RELEASE or not (eg ZFS v28) > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" 10.0-CURRENT works pretty good for me, i'm running it on an intel 32 machine and an amd64 machine. i have some servers running 7, i totally skipped 8 and tried 9 for a couple of months. but i wanted better wireless hardware support so i started pulling cvs head. For kicks i'm merging updated gnu and gpl software (that's been frozen since GPLv3 hit) into 10 src (ie /usr/src/gnu and /usr/src/contrib) just to see what kind of trouble it will cause. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA
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