Some time ago there was an announcement that people should not use 5.0 for critical production systems. Now that 5.1 is available, what is the consesous on it? Should it be used for critical production systems yet?
Doug Hardie writes:>Some time ago there was an announcement that people should not use 5.0 >for critical production systems. Now that 5.1 is available, what is >the consesous on it? Should it be used for critical production systems >yet?If you can get it to boot... 5.x seems to be a bit picky about what machines it can be booted on. For example, on our HP Netserver LH Pro, that's a no-go (4.x installed fine, though). I've heard other reports, especially notebooks, where installing 5.x was still a bit on the rough edge (or plainly not working.) -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta.de,informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de} ``Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.'' -- William of Ockham (~1285-1349, "Occam's Razor")
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 20:48, Doug Hardie wrote:> Some time ago there was an announcement that people should not use 5.0 > for critical production systems. Now that 5.1 is available, what is > the consesous on it? Should it be used for critical production systems > yet?I seem to recall a strong suggestion when 5.0-R came out that production systems wait for at least 5.2-R, and preferably for when the 5-STABLE series appears. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:48:20PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:> Some time ago there was an announcement that people should not use 5.0 > for critical production systems. Now that 5.1 is available, what is > the consesous on it? Should it be used for critical production systems > yet?If you're worried and don't need any of the new features, wait until 5.x-STABLE. Kris -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030620/2bfac85a/attachment.bin
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003, Doug Hardie wrote:> Some time ago there was an announcement that people should not use 5.0 > for critical production systems. Now that 5.1 is available, what is > the consesous on it? Should it be used for critical production systems > yet?The most common problems reported have been related to ACPI. Other than that, 5.X has received a good deal of testing on desktop systems, with very positive results. But it has probably received less exposure on heavily loaded servers, so you should be wary that problems are possible.