Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:26:42 -0800 From: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To 6.3 or to 7.0 that is the question? Message-ID: <47911992.60806@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <014401c85a16$a5557280$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <014401c85a16$a5557280$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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-----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 <delphij@delphij.net> 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-----
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