Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:12:36 -0600 From: "Michael G. Goodell" <michael2043@comcast.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Last Question On Which Release Is Best For Production Message-ID: <EOEHJPPPHJMFCJJOFCHNGEPOCFAA.michael2043@comcast.net>
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First of all, Thank you to those who replied to my original post about which FreeBSD Release is the most stable for a production system. I would still like to ask for clarification on one last item. Almost invariably the reply to my post asking which FreeBSD release is *the* most stable for a production environment was 4.10 is *the* best choice for a production system and that I could wait for 5.3 to become marked as STABLE in the coming months. I assume this information is taken from: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html that shows 5.2.1 and 4.10 as the two releases. My question is this: I currently run 5.1 (uname -a yields: 5.1-RELEASE-p17) and I read at the page http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html it states that 5.1 is Frozen and also states (not officially supported) - Does this mean that I am using a release that is not supported at all any longer and I should upgrade to 5.3 or will my 5.1 release still have security patches and such applied to it and eventually become production worthy. Am I just missing out on functionality by sticking with 5.1 and not moving up to 5.3? Moreover, *if* I choose to move to 5.3 (when it is ready for prime time) can I change my cvsupfile and then rebuild my kernel and world to the new 5.3 release? Thanks, Michael
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