Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:18:49 -0500 From: "Zimmerman, Eric" <Zimmerman.Eric@con-way.com> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x? Message-ID: <12AAD6CC50A25841834F43955F39B66E02571E53@qgaes001.conway.prod.con-way.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Thomas T. Veldhouse > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 08:00 > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x? >=20 > I run a very small home office network and domain off of my DSL. > Currently, I have a FreeBSD 5.4p8 firewall (pf) running. I am really > not having any issues, but sometimes the machines gets a bit stodgy for > no solid reason [load shouldn't be that high]. I have considered the > jump to 6.0, but I have held back because of the .0 stigma surrounding > FreeBSD releases. What do people think in this case? I have heard that > 6.0 is considered much more stable than later 5.x releases; is this true > [in context of my usage patterns]? I just upgraded from 5.4 release to 6.0RC1 on my home network (running Postfix+Amavisd, Apache, etc) and it wasn't too painful. So far 6.0 has been great (I have it on a Dell 1850 server as well). My only issue with the 5.4 upgrade was some wrestling with OpenSSL (had a port installed in 5.4 that 6 didn't seem to like) and dealing with some stuff that was previously in ports, but is now built in (like portsnap). Once those nuances were resolved, things worked as expected. I got all my ports rebuilt via portmanager just to be safe. This was my first upgrade across major versions and overall it was not too bad. Based on things I have read here, the 6.0 release cannot be compared to the 5.0 release in terms of stability, etc. and so far that's held true. Back up your box and give it a whirl, I think you will like it! =3D) Eric
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