From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 17 07:04:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E721616A41F for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:04:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07EC43D45 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:04:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i4so108665wra for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:04:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=q+L3STGyZtDjg7paamljybqBPHxgQkENIymzGw+pk4STIeoS6B/7IcLBiL0cO4kwDhh0YN/6CWwYF6483etvreDWKcJzf4iITEmErAc+jvzLNNUzpmTbTSEK3qGU/23xQ5BJX10UzfKbt7uoB6xe0yd5zsH2OAwCtU7qsLRUy+g= Received: by 10.54.21.53 with SMTP id 53mr256595wru; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.33 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:04:28 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050816122552.V18668@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable server 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: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:04:32 -0000 On 8/17/05, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/16/05, dpk wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Carstea Catalin wrote: > > > > > what version of freebsd do u recomand for a stable server? > > > > 4.11 is solid, hasn't shown any problems here. 5.4 is the best of the 5= .x > > series but we (I mean at my company, not speaking as a FreeBSD rep) > > haven't put it through as much stress as we have 4.11 >=20 > 4.x compared to 5.x will always be more stable > 5.x compared to 6.x will always be more stable > 6.x compared to 7.x will al.... >=20 > Do you see a trend? 4.x works now but what about in another year, two > years, or three? Try running the last version of 3.x on today's > hardware and software, 4.x is already having problems with hardware > support. FreeBSD 6 already has a -STABLE and it's first release is > just around the corner, It would be unwise to deploy 4.x unless > specifically needed.... If you need to build the next Mars rover or a > persons life depends on the system working then use 4.x, If your > deploying a new web server or what not you want 5.x, possibly even 6.x > if you can wait another month or two. Another month or two?? Are you a pessimist, or do you just know something I don't know? :-) This page http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html says TBD, but I didn't even imagine the delay could be *that* big. --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"