From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 9 19:05:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6414106566B for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:05:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikel.king@olivent.com) Received: from mail.olivent.com (mail.olivent.com [75.99.82.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3428FC0C for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.olivent.com (Kerio MailServer 6.7.2) (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128 bits)); Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:05:25 -0400 References: Message-Id: <13EB5F63-E8D2-47EA-8E56-F052B697EBB8@olivent.com> From: Mikel King To: Marwan Sultan In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: best FBSD version for commercial use. 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: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:05:28 -0000 On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote: > > Hello Gurus, > > > > Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a > charm for many years. > > But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2 > > This server will be a DNS server, apache, shell accounts..php, > mysql.. > > > > anything i should be aware of? > > Advices? > > > > Thank you. > > Marwan Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and rebuild the world to the current version of 8.x at the time. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://mikelking.com http://twitter.com/mikelking