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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:50:38 -0400
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, stable@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Building a server TODAY; which version?
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At 11:55 AM -0600 10/17/03, Brett Glass wrote:
>I'm putting together a server that must be up and running
>by midnight (old one is failing and most be taken down).
>The old one is running FreeBSD, so to make it easy to
>replicate the configuration I'd like to put FreeBSD 4.x
>on it as well. But which version? 4.8-RELEASE with
>patches? 4.8-RELEASE-p13? 4.x-STABLE? or is 4.9-RELEASE-RC2
>good enough to consider using? Opinions appreciated.

If I were in that situation, and I had to have it by
midnight, I would go with RELENG_4_8  (4.8 plus security
patches).  If I had two or three days to build and check
out the system, I go for RELENG_4 (-stable), and then
switch to RELENG_4_9 once that branch is available.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu