Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:03:41 +0000 From: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <20040108100341.GF27903@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <p06020431bc22324b3fa7@[128.113.24.47]> References: <79B4EAB03B5E4649A740A8C1452F606435AF1B@y6001a.umb.corp.umb.com> <3FFAF1D4.4000709@iconoplex.co.uk> <p0600201fbc20b51ef21b@[10.0.1.4]> <3FFB4499.3050301@iconoplex.co.uk> <xzpr7yc0ytz.fsf@dwp.des.no> <p06020431bc22324b3fa7@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:23:30PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > I would add that I've been running almost exclusively on 5.x > for over a year now (except for one machine which I have not > rebooted in over a year...). There have been some *very* > painful transitions at various times, but once I get past > the transitions the system has been quite stable. (fwiw, > in my case, I am only running on desktop systems). Well, what you've told me there is: - 5.x is a pain in the arse to make the transition to - You're not running FBSD in the same environment I am - But for you that's all OK, and I should agree :-) Which doesn't get us much further down the road, but thanks for the input. I have two boxes here that need to go into a co-lo tomorrow, and therefore need to be installed today. 5.2-RC2 does seem to be holding out better than expected now I've had it up for a week or so on a dev machine. I'm tempted to whirl it out on these boxes, but if they die I'm screwed. Dunno. I'm not sure if I can trust you, Des, and others when it's my cahunas on the line. > So, once we stop making major API/ABI changes and the branch > is truly stable (with a 6.x branch for new cutting-edge > developments), I personally am quite confident that 5.x will > be a stable, production-quality system. And there are a > number of features in 5.x that I think are tremendous > advantages -- especially for boxes in a production setting. It might be worth somebody getting those written up and sent out to -advocacy to start the ball rolling, as per another mail somewhere in this monstrous thread. > My guess is you're going to have a large bar tab at the next > BSDcon... Certainly I hope so! I've run tabs at the bar at conferences before, and I'm sure I'll do it again... -- Paul Robinson
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