From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 03:17:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CAC816A588 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:17:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (khavrinen.csail.mit.edu [128.30.28.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606AF13C45B for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:17:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (localhost.csail.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]) by khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBM2xY80019409 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK CN=khavrinen.csail.mit.edu issuer=Client+20CA); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:59:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id kBM2xYxc019408; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:59:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:59:34 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200612220259.kBM2xYxc019408@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> To: spork@bway.net X-Newsgroups: mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-stable In-Reply-To: References: <000801c723bb$efc2b540$260ba8c0@wii.wintecind.com> <458A2B14.5070009@freebsd.org> <458A97BF.1090503@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20061221095811.886d9850.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory X-Greylist: Sender DNS name whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (khavrinen.csail.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:59:35 -0500 (EST) Cc: , stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:17:24 -0000 spork@bway.net writes: >-5.x was never really for production use, in the same way 3.x never >was. Why do people continue to say this? Many sites have used, are still using, and plan to continue to use, 5.x in production. ftp5/cvsup3 ran 5.x until a few months ago, and I have a netnews transit server and a Web server that still run 5.5. I'm slowly moving things off 5.x for the better support and performance of 6.x, but it's been stable for me in two fairly tough production applications for quite some time. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness