From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 11:38:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5138E16A4C2 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anon.securenym.net (anon.securenym.net [209.113.101.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FF243FF9 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dincht@securenym.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by anon.securenym.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) id h8TIa3328644 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.filtered; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:36:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200309291836.h8TIa3328644@anon.securenym.net> X-Securenym: dincht From: "C. Ulrich" To: Bryan Cassidy In-Reply-To: <20030929025157.5d005b32.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> References: <20030929025157.5d005b32.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Peter Jennings Fan Club Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:34:38 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 v/s 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:38:09 -0000 On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 03:51, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was just wondering what people on the list thought. I don't want to > know any details on which is better or whatever just in general which is > better for whatever reasons people use it. Short answer: use 4.8 for anything remotely critical such as a firewall, web server, etc, especially if it's going to talk to the outside world and/or uptime is important. That's why they call it 4.8-STABLE. For learning purposes or a personal system that you don't mind tinkering with every now and again, you might as well go with 5.1. For what it's worth, most releases that aren't necessarily -STABLE are plenty stable enough for normal use. They just aren't officially supported by the FreeBSD team if you run into a snag. See the handbook and/or FAQ for more info. C. Ulrich -- http://bityard.net