From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 19 10:28:07 2004 Return-Path: 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 BA86016A4CE for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:28:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtps-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtps-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B03243D39 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:28:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mhellwig@xs4all.nl) Received: from [10.0.0.182] (xinagnet.xs4all.nl [80.126.243.229]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtps-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBJAS4MY020462 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:28:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mhellwig@xs4all.nl) Message-ID: <41C557B6.6010806@xs4all.nl> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:28:06 +0100 From: "Martin P. Hellwig" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041111 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pawel garbowski References: <1351079231.20041218200855@karmacoma.net> In-Reply-To: <1351079231.20041218200855@karmacoma.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 STABLE for production server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:28:07 -0000 PawelG wrote: > > > I would like to know your opinion about 5.3-STABLE for this > pourpose. I googled some and found that it isn't good idea but all > those opinions was pretty old (related for ex. to older BETA version > of 5.X branch) > > At this moment I think that when setting up a new box (fresh install) 5 will just do fine, in my case however I have a couple boxes already using 4.10, in that case I will not upgrade to 5 but instead to 4.11, actually I use RELENG_4 and rebuild everything (when appropriate, depends on SA) on a build/test machine and then install it on the production machines. So it depends a bit on your taste, someday I have to upgrade my machines too, because SA will no longer be patched in the 4 tree (not in the near future though). Till then I have time to decide if I go with 5 or something else like DragonFly, it all depends if I feel comfortable with that OS and even more important is it a good enough solution for my technical problems/needs. my0.02€ -- mph