From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 11:20:03 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 3C00D106564A for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:20:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19F48FC0A for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eeke52 with SMTP id e52so60063eek.13 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:19:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=wgx6HVRpqC94rVbkfFtD21p6o1KQTZIIVeE/Y/wa+pI=; b=Jmq8oXy093v2/E+psBfeX9X1QJwSpWh1bd0WpJc0aen3AfbNJ7stKEaXwvFtFi0nQ2 /sbjMHOBWB5LESTVrnda1UkVj4OYD6VoF3F5UdSLaWfk/mQJLqpE361lSXCTQoYEYCGK e7TOC18yfGWzOlBmF1OjEoRlSRpuayfImemaB7fak6dtn2kD9MihtXjz5MdNxRQr++0s fi/7xy9fv6ADZdJMGVgj+v4yE3l5xlmN1z2Ap3wKrcn95+elu5lXYBpNEuHXFCa2xAfv FyV1qQSf3ozRbR70IAKI37ZSs0LRDNJCjF8xcDpCwFMuvphRXnfvOL9CwvMJBw3k9iM0 unWg== Received: by 10.14.214.196 with SMTP id c44mr296427eep.7.1343215196103; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm1488268eeb.3.2012.07.25.04.19.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <500FD659.4090106@my.gd> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:19:53 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkd5HyYCBN/2stx/5hrBJHq6y12/0sYu/FZHy+b1CPNc6uR8/qSd7iDoIcCtGQetvfOwtOq Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stable production version. 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: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:20:03 -0000 On 7/25/12 1:13 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote: > > Hello all and Good Morning, Afternoon or evening :) > > I finally decided to take off my FreeBSD 7.2 server which is onlin esince 2009. > > I will go for a new FreeBSD version and will move out all data. > > My Server is mainly is a MAIL server, sendmail. > and ofcourse few websites, data.etc.. > > Which version do you recommend? > Shall I go for 9 ? > or 8.3 is still more fit for a production and bsns server ? > I'd say it's a matter of personal preference. We're mostly running 8.3 in production here. I've recently installed 9-STABLE servers to try them out and fill PRs if I get problems. I would encourage you to use 9-STABLE so that you may do the same and ensure the stability of future releases.