From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 20:08:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13494106566C for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:08:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gobble.wa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED608FC14 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so2422258wib.13 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:08:18 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of gobble.wa@gmail.com designates 10.180.101.228 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.101.228; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gobble.wa@gmail.com designates 10.180.101.228 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=gobble.wa@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=gobble.wa@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.101.228]) by 10.180.101.228 with SMTP id fj4mr10974664wib.4.1330459698624 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:08:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=qXdplyHI5lC2bX99RIm1gwMdyPP4oe3/gs7mAk3Cn60=; b=q3txT8FBfSpbYnYycD1rT3AaXFfVPpuEpqvsESD44hudrtXFd975Rx7j7JJEbcbABx eMWHjSxjcUHak8UUbl3MknPoKaQ8JeN/3GZ2lysx2UnRvnRA6IlCHmwTn/3sx4CMjaDU ARdJBwLt/26UXVkqRfwIlw2+NIKnfYH21td+M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.101.228 with SMTP id fj4mr8739909wib.4.1330459698481; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:08:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.154.131 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:08:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.154.131 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:08:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201202281721.35827.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> References: <1330390351993-5520494.post@n5.nabble.com> <4F4C8A61.5010605@my.gd> <201202281721.35827.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:08:18 -0800 Message-ID: From: Waitman Gobble To: Erich Dollansky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Damien Fleuriot , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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, 28 Feb 2012 20:08:20 -0000 On Feb 28, 2012 4:13 AM, "Erich Dollansky" wrote: > > Hi, > > I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out. Currently, the machine here runs 8.3 and will stick to 8 until 10.0 or 10.1 will arrive at the scene. > > But for technical reasons, I have left one machine on 7 after the upgrade from 6 to 8 failed. It is a very old machine and some hardware support got dropped. > > Erich > > On Tuesday 28 February 2012 15:03:45 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > > On 2/28/12 1:52 AM, sw2wolf wrote: > > >> uname -a > > > FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #3: Fri Sep 30 > > > 15:23:56 CST 2011 > > > root@mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 > > > > > > I am using 8.2 for a long time. And it works VERY well. > > > > > > > > > Any suggestion is appreciated! > > > > > > > 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. > > > > You may want to reflect on the features you currently use and whether > > they've been improved in 9.0-RELEASE or not (eg ZFS v28) > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" 10.0-CURRENT works pretty good for me, i'm running it on an intel 32 machine and an amd64 machine. i have some servers running 7, i totally skipped 8 and tried 9 for a couple of months. but i wanted better wireless hardware support so i started pulling cvs head. For kicks i'm merging updated gnu and gpl software (that's been frozen since GPLv3 hit) into 10 src (ie /usr/src/gnu and /usr/src/contrib) just to see what kind of trouble it will cause. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA