Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 15:57:46 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9 Message-ID: <20070525195746.GB84902@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1180102660.41807.16.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <4656D0FB.5070200@seclark.us> <02e601c79ed3$ddf0c3a0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <1180102660.41807.16.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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--xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:17:40PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:51 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > > Why are you releasing a new product on an already unsupported version? > > 6.2 is the version you really need to be moving to not 6.1. >=20 > FreeBSD 6.1 is not unsupported - far from it. When 6.1 was released, it > was designated as an "Extended support" branch, and is currently > scheduled to be supported (from a security point of view) after support > for 6.2 is dropped. http://www.freebsd.org/security/ >=20 > If you're building network applications, it makes perfect sense to go > for 6.1, as that's part of the reason behind the "extended support" > branches. I think you're misunderstanding his point. 6.1 has security support but this does not cover bug fixes or performance improvements. Apart from the most critical of bugs, old releases receive neither class of fix. By contrast, later releases on a branch have both, so if you are seeing a perceived performance problem it is wise to evaluate whether it is a problem that is already fixed. This is often not something that someone can give a quick yes/no answer to unless you are able to precisely characterize the problem, so empirical testing may be the only way to decide. Kris --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGVz+6Wry0BWjoQKURAmHgAJ0R4rm5B6UASLRel0pyBIetl1HRIwCg4UmA /pZhboG6T1u3br0pnDf53r4= =cxZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V--
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