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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:50:12 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Dan Bikle <dan.bikle@gmail.com>, Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?
Message-ID:  <20060619135011.GA40614@gothmog.pc>
In-Reply-To: <20060619130452.17965.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060619111155.GB4589@gothmog.pc> <20060619130452.17965.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On 2006-06-19 06:04, Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>On 2006-06-19 12:33, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
>>>> The 5.3 release was clearly marked as a  "developer preview"
>>>> release
>>>
>>> No, it was not.  5.3 was a perfectly ordinary release. It was in
>>> fact the first 5.x release that was *not* marked as a "developer
>>> preview".
>>
>> You're right.  I must have been thinking of 5.2.1.
>>
>> Sorry for the misinformation :-/
>
> I'd say that a $55. celeron on Freebsd 4.11 would be just as fast as a
> Sempron an 5.3, so why not save some money and get something that
> everyone knows is "production ready"?

I'm not so sure.  It would take quite a few tests and some _real_
numbers to convince me that such a claim was true :-)




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