From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 14:53:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E4216A4CF for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:53:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (caliban.rospa.ca [24.72.10.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7751643D39 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:53:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id D9817404; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:53:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:53:00 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050208145300.GP9678@seekingfire.com> References: <4205F382.8020404@freebsd.org> <20050206120822.3d8e381a.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <200502061327.03530.mark.rowlands@mypost.se> <20050208144032.GA6592@akroteq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050208144032.GA6592@akroteq.com> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/personal/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers X-Tillman-rules: yes he does X-No-prize-winner: Nathanael User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:53:02 -0000 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_