From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 21:26:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEDF16A419 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:26:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.delphij.net (delphij-pt.tunnel.tserv2.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f03:2c9::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E2B13C459 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:26:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (unknown [202.108.54.204]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.delphij.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EEC28448 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:26:51 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (unknown [202.108.54.204]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A80EB828D; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:26:51 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([202.108.54.204]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [202.108.54.204]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4Jzbea5rPh1K; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:26:46 +0800 (CST) Received: from charlie.delphij.net (71.5.7.139.ptr.us.xo.net [71.5.7.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50306EB81A9; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:26:45 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kROaqXhze6Oj56QepukRArvGP16u3BSE/FrBt8ISsG6VFZdh+3s1TogqNyuS7CS0p jOlDZdcQlWI6uDzITOEsg== Message-ID: <47911992.60806@delphij.net> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:26:42 -0800 From: Xin LI Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Hartland References: <014401c85a16$a5557280$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <014401c85a16$a5557280$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=18EDEBA0; url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To 6.3 or to 7.0 that is the question? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:26:53 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steven Hartland wrote: > With the announcement of 6.3 and with 7.0 looking like it wont be far > behind I'd interested to hear what people thought of the relative > benefits of each where? > > I know 7 has had a lot of work done on locking and ULE but are there > any other reasons to go for that instead of 6.3? Conversely are there > any reason which would point away from 7 such as stability issues? 7.0 is relatively new, while 6.3 would be a more conservative choice of release if you have a lot of binaries running on previous release because there are less changes. However, I think it's good to use 7.0 as a development platform for future applications as there are a lot of performance/stability/feature additions that will never be simply MFC'ed because we try hard to maintain API/ABI stability for -STABLE branches. Cheers, - -- Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHkRmRi+vbBBjt66ARAmaPAKCA7bJU2854yjBNNK0vkkkn9xy5kwCdGpLN tqEIud77ODnRq3zB0QKYkrc= =N/o9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----