Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:53:00 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050208145300.GP9678@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20050208144032.GA6592@akroteq.com> References: <4205F382.8020404@freebsd.org> <20050206120822.3d8e381a.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <200502061327.03530.mark.rowlands@mypost.se> <20050208144032.GA6592@akroteq.com>
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:40:32AM -0900, Andy Firman wrote: > I am moving from Linux to FreeBSD as much as possible, > but am very confused about whether or not to use 5.3 ! FWIW, I've moved all but a single host to either -stable or -current (the sparc64 box) and, with one exception[1], it's all worked great. I don't run loads where a small performance difference is critical so I haven't even bothered to measure for that -- and if I did, I'd buy more hardware if necessary just to get administrator-friendly features like rcNG. I upgraded with the "build a new box, copy the data over, and swap it in" method. I didn't try upgrade in-service hosts, that just seemed like more trouble than it was worth. The single remaining 4.X box I have feels somewhat ... antique ... by comparison the the other boxes. -T 1. MIT `rsh` no longer works properly in my Kerberos environment. This is important because the rsh from the base OS is not kerberized. Luckily, it's not critical for me yet. Details at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-December/018452.html -- Page 12: Unix is a set of tools for smart people. - Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_
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