Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:25:07 +0100 (BST) From: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> To: Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 or 5.0 ? Message-ID: <20030423131623.Y632@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> In-Reply-To: <3EA67F9D.4030003@snowfall.se> References: <3EA67F9D.4030003@snowfall.se>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Stefan Cars wrote: > Hi! > > We are installing some new servers in our company and I'm thinking of > installing 5.0 on them. What do you people think ? Is that to be too > brave ? I did that once with Linux, between 2.2.19 and 2.4.2/3. When my boss realised what I had done I nearly got fired. The experience has made me morbidly afraid of doing other peoples beta testing for them in a production environment, even if it seems fine in on my workstation and on test servers. I now give it about to 18 months before testing new major versions. Almost the only criteria I use is whether what I am doing is so out of date that there is no longer a useful user base, performance is worse and bugs are going unfixed. Do you have any reason to believe 4.8 won't work? Bill.
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