From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 18:58:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E658216A45D for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:58:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E7A43D5E for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:58:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4AB46B3F; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:58:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:58:56 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Scott Robbins In-Reply-To: <20050722134713.GB60396@uws1.starlofashions.com> Message-ID: <20050722195724.P40216@fledge.watson.org> References: <42E0F645.407@drexel.edu> <20050722134713.GB60396@uws1.starlofashions.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is current, now? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:58:24 -0000 On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:36:05AM -0400, Justin R. Smith wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> FreeBSD jsmith.org 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Thu Jul 14 12:35:12 EDT >> 2005 jsmith@jsmith.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 >> >> now and considering upgrading to 6.0. Is this system fairly usable now? > > Well, remember it's beta, but I've been running it on my workstation > with no issues. I'm holding off putting it on the servers though. :) I moved my personal web/shell server to 6.x last week with the advent of the beta. It seems to be working quite well, and the server does quite a bit of work. The one caution I'd have is that the library versions are all in the throes of changing, and since there aren't compat5x packages yet, you'll want to do an incremental update from 5.x to 6.x so that the old 5.x libraries are still available to run older applications against. This will be fixed with the next beta, but it sounded like David won't get to that until after the weekend. Robert N M Watson