From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 21:38:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A1A16A401 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:38:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B9E43D45 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:38:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2SLXJ2Y020926; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:33:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4429AB91.7090602@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:33:05 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Vella References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:38:37 -0000 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? > > ================================== TOP TEN REASONS PEOPLE STILL USE FREEBSD 4.11 10. "format && reinstall" sounds too much like MSFT! 9. Spinal Tap fans can't wait to hit 4.*14* .... 8. 'uname -a' substitutes for AT&T information call... 7. Procmail rules delete "announce@" headers.... 6. Believed "tmr@aol.com" trolling.... 5. "African users are non-migratory."++ 4. "Tools, not policy." 3. Too busy coding to update. 2. It Just Works(tm). 1. Uptime, uptime, uptime, baby! ================================ Truth: I dunno. Some people are afraid of destabilization, I guess, and follow the adage "if it ain't broke" ?? KDK ;-) ++ Not an ethnic or nationalist slur, catch the "Monty Python" reference, please---especially if you call yourself a geek.... -- They make a desert and call it peace. -- Tacitus (55?-120?) Appendix. 10] 5.X introduced "UFS2", and you've got to newfs your disks to get it. 9] Ref. movie: "This is Spinal Tap" (which I've never seen-I can't really call myself an elder geek, then, can I?) 8] Google's faster, and free. 7] Might be interesting to know how many admins really haven't thought about the fact that 5.x (heck, 6? 7??) exists. 6] Not his real name, I hope. Some people *have* had issues. This happens to everyone running a computer, I think, and isn't *directly* related to one's choice of OS 5] See Bruce Mah's "Migration Guide"(s). 4] Nobody's forcing them to upgrade. Compare and contrast this with the word "Free", as in "FreeBSD" and a certain well-known software company. 3] FreeBSD does allow you to do Real Work, especially if you don't spend your time running every possible update permutation. Or, composing silly emails to the lists... 2] 1] ... self-explanatory?