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Subject: Re: best overall upgrade from 8.x?
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On 15 Nov 2014, at 12:44, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:
>=20
> On 11/15/14 05:48, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>=20
>> I'd wait a month or so and, if no problems that might impact you pop =
up,
>> I'd go with 10.1
>=20
> Uh... is direct upgrade (using sources) possible from 8.4 to 10.1?
> No need to step through 9.x?

I would assume so. We haven't used 9.x that much, and have already =
upgraded around 30 machines from 8.4 to 10.0 without a problem. (Using =
freebsd-upgrade instead of source, but I=E2=80=99d expect the results to =
be the same)

--=20
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