From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 18:11:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E6016A41F for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:11:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C8213C45E for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:11:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l54IBAc5083438; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:11:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:11:18 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070604074600.GA3542@aurora.oekb.co.at> <20070604085627.GA22626@rot13.obsecurity.org> <4663DBBD.9020506@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <4663DBBD.9020506@intersonic.se> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706041411.19043.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Ewald Jenisch Subject: Re: New (blade) server - stick with FreeBSD 6.x or wait for FreeBSD 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:11:13 -0000 On Monday 04 June 2007 05:30:37 am Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:46:00AM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm about to set up a new server that should run basically > >> network-monitoring (MRTG, Cacti etc.). Hardware will be HP C-class > >> blade based on AMD Opterons. > >> > >> Should I stick with FreeBS 6.x or wait for FreeBSD 7 (see > >> http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html - "June 2007 Start FreeBSD > >> 7.0 Release Process). > > > > Note "start". The release is still many months away, so presumably > > you do not wish to wait until then to install your server :) You > > should definitely keep an eye on it though, there is a lot of good > > stuff coming up in 7.0. > > > >> The question basically is: Will FreeBSD7 be "current" or "stable"? > > We are running several non-critical (including this T42 laptop) and one > critical (SMTP) machine with -CURRENT and so far it's been a matter of > getting the source from a good moment in time, mostly the snapshots. So > far very few problems. You need a testbed to try stuff out on though. Note that the bge adapters in the HP c-class blades require SerDes support, which IIRC was not present in 6.2-RELEASE but has (hopefully? maybe?) been MFC'ed since then. JN