Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:44:57 -0500 From: Tom Grove <freebsd@voidmain.net> To: Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? Message-ID: <4429A049.8080100@voidmain.net> In-Reply-To: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com>
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Joseph Vella wrote: >I notice a lot of references to version 4.x. Is there any overwhelming reason >why its use seems to be still popular. I'm wanting to set up a server (just >for play) on my home network using a PII machine. Am I better off using an >older version for such old equipment? If so, do any particular versions >stand out? > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I would certainly recommend going with 6.x. The reason that many of our servers still run 4.x is that 5.x got a bad reputation and there really is no upgrade path from 4.x to 6.x. 5 and 6 default to using UFS2 and 4 uses UFS so, IMHO it's better to rebuild and taking a few hundred users offline for a couple of hours whilst this happens isn't fun. That's my scenario...I'm sure others have totally different reasons. -Tom
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