From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 09:49:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9E0106564A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:49:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6675B8FC1D for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so5377389bkc.13 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ml@my.gd designates 10.204.136.220 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.204.136.220; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ml@my.gd designates 10.204.136.220 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=ml@my.gd Received: from mr.google.com ([10.204.136.220]) by 10.204.136.220 with SMTP id s28mr11260508bkt.94.1331027388530 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.136.220 with SMTP id s28mr8798596bkt.94.1331027388344; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o7sm30661025bkw.16.2012.03.06.01.49.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:49:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F55DDBA.9010301@my.gd> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:49:46 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1330390351993-5520494.post@n5.nabble.com> <4F4C8A61.5010605@my.gd> <4F55A834.5050302@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4F55A834.5050302@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkWB5Mic82K6sBFdWAbqcBZFxNqCZp8n/UGb73rlSF4GYssyKwfk5WHxvJkmK4LmQP+im7r Subject: Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ? 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, 06 Mar 2012 09:49:49 -0000 On 3/6/12 7:01 AM, Allen wrote: > On 2/28/2012 3:03 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> This is an entirely subjective question and one that only you can answer. >> >> For example, given the number of problem reports I'm seeing on the >> lists, I'm going to stick with the 8-STABLE branch for still a long >> time, likely until 9.1 or 9.2-RELEASE. > > I don't think it's a good idea to let what you see on a mailing list be > your end all be all of what you use... This isn't an insult or anything, > but I've seen some pretty damn stupid people who try to install stuff > into Swap.... And that isn't even close to the stupidest thing I've ever > seen on a list. Trust me, the best way to figure out of you personally > would benefit from upgrading, is doing it yourself. > I get your point, however, reports of NICs malfunctionning or stuff like that are pretty distressing when running frontend firewall boxes. Seeing 9.0 doesn't bring much to the table, imo, in terms of firewalling and CARP novelty, I'm probably going to stick with 8.3 for some time :)