From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 13:52:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0200537BCBF for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 28673 invoked by uid 211); 4 Apr 2000 20:51:52 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:21:52 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <<<<>>>>> Message-ID: <20000405022152.B28619@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000405012308.A28419@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <94073.954878381@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <94073.954878381@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 09:59:41PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > (b) the release notes clearly discourage you from using 4.0 unless > > you're an early adopter or developer; that seems quite factual to me > > Please quote. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. Well, I can't find it on the freebsd site, so maybe I'm wrong about the present official policy. But here's what the slashdot post said (posted by nik, so I assume he quotes Jordan correctly): ....And before you all rush off to upgrade your production servers, read on for a brief message from Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD's Release Engineer, and to find out where to download the release from. "As with all FreeBSD releases ending in .0, the project recommends that production environments wait at least one or two releases after it before moving mission-critical services over. These dot-zero releases are primarily aimed at the developers and early adopters who are willing to work on refining the technology until it's production-ready. The 4-stable branch will also not be created until just before 4.1 is released, the period following a .0 release being the best time to collect serious feedback before branching the tree." (http://slashdot.org/bsd/00/03/14/2355207.shtml) And the following is from the official announcement of 3.0: This release is primarily aimed at developers and early-adopters, though many ISPs have reported good results when using it in production (not that we recommend this to any but the most highly skilled). See the release notes for more information. (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.0R/announce.html) - Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message