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Date:      Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:53:15 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 6.0 release date and stability
Message-ID:  <20051017185315.GA94004@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200510171505.j9HF5YQU030521@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <200510171505.j9HF5YQU030521@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:05:34PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote:
>  > The release schedule for FreeBSD 6.0, on the FreeBSD Web site, doesn't=
 show a
>  > projected date for the finished product.  How close is it?
>=20
> I can't speak for the RE team, but from watching the BETA
> and RC progress and reports in the mailing lists ... my
> guess is that 6.0-RELEASE will be out very soon.  Maybe in
> only a few days.
>=20
>  > We are (believe it
>  > or not) still running and building production servers with 4.11,
>=20
> Same here.
>=20
>  > We're running our own tests on RC1, but don't have a lot of spare serv=
ers to
>  > try it on. So, it's worth asking: How stable is RC1 turning out to be =
on
>  > uniprocessor platforms?  On SMP platforms? How is network and disk per=
formance
>  > relative to 4.11? (When we tested 5.x, both network and file system
>  > performance were worse than that of 4.11.)
>=20
> FWIW, I'm running RELENG_6 on two machines (a notebook and
> a server) for several weeks, updating every few days, and
> putting some workload and various testing on them.  So far
> I have not encountered any serious problems that were not
> resolved.  So, stability seems to be very good; my feeling
> is that 6.0 will be a _lot_ better than 5.0.  A _lot_.

Don't let the .0 confuse you.  6.0 is nothing *AT ALL* like 5.0 in
terms of development history and quality.

Kris

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