From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Aug 20 02:52:55 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618B0DD78C1 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 02:52:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73186FB4E for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 02:52:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from unknown (HELO leader.local) ([118.211.113.221]) by ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 20 Aug 2017 12:22:47 +0930 Subject: Re: Any reason to prefer 11.1 over 10.3 ? To: Manish Jain , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <20170818074902.GA91334@gmail.com> From: Shane Ambler Message-ID: <1b3df6d2-a430-89d1-8b13-3353ab834844@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:22:45 +0930 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170818074902.GA91334@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-AU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 02:52:55 -0000 On 18/08/2017 17:19, Matt Smith wrote: > On Aug 18 07:35, Manish Jain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am going to have to install FreeBSD again on a box on which 10.3R >> works well. Is there any reason I should prefer 11.1R ? >> >> Thanks for any tips. >> Manish Jain > > The main reason for 11.1 would be the expected end of life date when > 10.3 will no longer be supported. As you can see from > https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup that is April 30, > 2018 whereas 11.1 will be 3 months after the release of 11.2. > > Obviously you can upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4, or from 10.3 to 11.2, and > from 11.1 to 11.2 quite easily, but it's easier to start with 11 than it > is to start with 10 and do a major version upgrade. > > Unless there are any strange issues particular to your hardware 10 and > 11 should work identically really. > 11.1 includes bhyve improvements which include vnc support. That means you can get a gui connection to the bhyve instance during boot. I believe many other bhyve improvements are not being added to 10.x -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler