Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:50:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> Cc: Dan Bikle <dan.bikle@gmail.com>, Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations? Message-ID: <20060619135011.GA40614@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060619130452.17965.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060619111155.GB4589@gothmog.pc> <20060619130452.17965.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 2006-06-19 06:04, Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote: >--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >>On 2006-06-19 12:33, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: >>>> The 5.3 release was clearly marked as a "developer preview" >>>> release >>> >>> No, it was not. 5.3 was a perfectly ordinary release. It was in >>> fact the first 5.x release that was *not* marked as a "developer >>> preview". >> >> You're right. I must have been thinking of 5.2.1. >> >> Sorry for the misinformation :-/ > > I'd say that a $55. celeron on Freebsd 4.11 would be just as fast as a > Sempron an 5.3, so why not save some money and get something that > everyone knows is "production ready"? I'm not so sure. It would take quite a few tests and some _real_ numbers to convince me that such a claim was true :-)
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