I'm putting together a server that must be up and running by midnight (old one is failing and most be taken down). The old one is running FreeBSD, so to make it easy to replicate the configuration I'd like to put FreeBSD 4.x on it as well. But which version? 4.8-RELEASE with patches? 4.8-RELEASE-p13? 4.x-STABLE? or is 4.9-RELEASE-RC2 good enough to consider using? Opinions appreciated. --Brett
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Friday 17 October 2003 18:55, Brett Glass wrote:> on it as well. But which version? 4.8-RELEASE with > patches? 4.8-RELEASE-p13?What's the difference between 4.8-RELEASE with patches and 4.8-RELEASE-p13 anyway?> 4.x-STABLE? or is 4.9-RELEASE-RC2I think 4.x-STABLE (e.g. what you would of got if you cvsup to RELENG_4 a few weeks ago) is currently tagged RC2.> good enough to consider using? Opinions appreciated.I can't think of many significant new things in 4.9 that are useful for servers, so personally I'd rather stick with 4.8 which I know is solid. My server is running 4.8, and I don't plan on letting any newever version near it for a long time. That said I'm running 4.9-RC2 on my laptop and it's quite happy so far. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/kC/AF8Iu1zN5WiwRAuMAAJwLdL9KOgg7DGtbkYGo+OzQ4oON/gCfTffT 9qvHCxsl3cyB+IMMoETOAo0=AMFf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Friday 17 October 2003 6:55 pm, Brett Glass wrote:> I'm putting together a server that must be up and running > by midnight (old one is failing and most be taken down). > The old one is running FreeBSD, so to make it easy to > replicate the configuration I'd like to put FreeBSD 4.x > on it as well. But which version? 4.8-RELEASE with > patches? 4.8-RELEASE-p13? 4.x-STABLE? or is 4.9-RELEASE-RC2 > good enough to consider using? Opinions appreciated. > > --Brett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"Rather than have everyone guess, why don't you tell us what hardware you are going to use. -- ian j hart Quoth the raven, bite me! Salem Saberhagen (Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace)
At 11:55 AM -0600 10/17/03, Brett Glass wrote:>I'm putting together a server that must be up and running >by midnight (old one is failing and most be taken down). >The old one is running FreeBSD, so to make it easy to >replicate the configuration I'd like to put FreeBSD 4.x >on it as well. But which version? 4.8-RELEASE with >patches? 4.8-RELEASE-p13? 4.x-STABLE? or is 4.9-RELEASE-RC2 >good enough to consider using? Opinions appreciated.If I were in that situation, and I had to have it by midnight, I would go with RELENG_4_8 (4.8 plus security patches). If I had two or three days to build and check out the system, I go for RELENG_4 (-stable), and then switch to RELENG_4_9 once that branch is available. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu