From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 16:36:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC1737C26B for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:36:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp1.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.16]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA20792; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:35:01 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e5TMs8C47342; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:54:08 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:54:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Andy Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.5 now available . . . . . Message-ID: <20000630015408.C43130@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from deimos@lewman.com on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:06:41PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:06:41PM -0400, Andy wrote: > > Not to start a massive flamewar here, but in my personal experience with > multiple FreeBSD boxes in a live environment, I've found that 3.x is much > more stable than the 4.x servers. I've gone so far as to revert the 4.x > server back to 3.x. I'm going to revisit the issue when it becomes 4.1. It is only because I found a 3.4 installation cdrom more eaasily that I have installed a 3.x version on my home PC, after removing for the zillion'th time that Windows thing from my workstation at work. One of the things that strikes me as a major difference between 3.x and 4.x is that the latter seems to run more smoothly when I copy large amount of data from an IDE device to some other IDE device near by. The 4.x branch is definitely a lot more stable now than 3.x, IMHO. Not that 4.x never had any problems, since I recall trying a lot harder to get MySQL and PHP-4 on a 4.x installation to work properly. But that was a couple of weeks *before* the release of 4.0; I suspect than by now 4.x has become a lot better. I guess, I'll have to try it once more, and see if it works better now :-) -- Giorgos Keramidas < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > Find my public pgp key at: finger://keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message