From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 21 17:46:56 2007 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 3001916A41B for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:46:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24E313C447 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:46:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so185411uge for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:46:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ZPbOI9L+NIfIrBSZmB9kLJqOQHJI/fzogKdyEX8V93U=; b=d6MKvUiYh4JaUOIfMsuh7eoL6tvelJpwHXPxUwXB8FPK0fB/y/qjE3sGekI+foHH67pckqcktvmczym3oWEwhsQFMDGXPH7r2u9DpaX9Xbiy/QUuQRxnAPNqsrwBPj7bAkVPqJRi98nteKVwquOhQHqZE/v1850C1dTZQ+Gba20= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=wwzx2nBiKrx1Ch7y5R0wApjTQf+EDvQgQ5dkwSvDUUYcplSFHqnhnSANnOtVxA0NmD/MkaefaxFS1AVQcFI3A1NFyTPwPLBFtisvTJuKQlPCTRt6PcM7HAsVd22mr/wnpjC/UGJlSBP30Q1AkH3U+SMUT1B64vFOZu9MxAKgG+8= Received: by 10.66.248.5 with SMTP id v5mr146111ugh.1195665700209; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.250.6 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:21:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0711210921t470b44f8l33af77cdcc9067cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:21:40 +0000 From: Chris To: S.N.Grigoriev In-Reply-To: <18741195233013@webmail27.yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <18741195233013@webmail27.yandex.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:46:56 -0000 On 16/11/2007, S.N.Grigoriev wrote: > > Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:31:19 +0000 (GMT) > Robert Watson wrote: > > > I feel that the 7.0 kernel will prove to be one of our most stable, > > not to mention most performant, .0 releases to date. > > Unfortunately, that's not true. For example, parallel printing > crashes my amd64 system since the beginning of May. I've posted > PR (kern/116669) which is still open. Some other people have > reported about similar problems. > > To my mind it's a stopper defect for 7.0 because parallel > printing is one of the basic computer tasks. FreeBSD was one > of the best print servers for years. But at present it cannot > be used in such a role (at least on amd64). > > Regards, > Serguey. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Without a doubt I have to say the old saying applies dont try to fix what isnt broke, so goto 6.3 and by the time that is EOL then 7.x should be matured and a 7.1 release will exist which I have no doubt will have fixed bugs that we dont know about now. 6.0 was the same story we were all urged to upgrade our servers to it and for many people was fine but of course there was unforseen problems that had to be fixed in 6.1 and 6.2 it is a catch 22 it needs wider scale usage for problems to be found but people wont necessarily move their servers over willingly as the risk of things breaking is too high. I have a hobby server on 7.0 beta 3 but all my web servers are staying on 6.x for the forseeable future unless I have a good reason to move to 7 even taking into account the work that has gone into improving mysql performance. Chris