From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 21:54:23 2005 Return-Path: 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 8957D16A4CF for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:54:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D61C43D39 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:54:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j07LsK229417; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:54:20 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200501072154.j07LsK229417@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: sp0ng3b0b@sbcglobal.net (sp0ng3b0b) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:54:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <41DF03E3.6040605@sbcglobal.net> from "sp0ng3b0b" at Jan 07, 2005 01:49:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How long will 4.x be supported? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:54:23 -0000 > > Given the serious stability issues that *some* users are having with > 5.3, many are sticking with 4.x for production servers. > > Will FreeBSD keep the 4.x line alive for a little while longer? Perhaps > going into 4.12, 4.13, etc? It has been stated that they hope 4.11 will be the last release in the 4.xx track. That is due out at the end of January. I don't think that 4.11 being the last out is hard and fast yet though. I don't see much discussion of stability or security issues with 5.3+ - only some gripes about it being a little slow and some comments that not all the debug code has yet been removed which accounts for a portion of the slowness in some things - network response, I think. > I ask this only because I don't see a lot of communication to the list > about these issues being addressed. It has been discussed a number of times. ////jerry