Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:22:45 +0930 From: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any reason to prefer 11.1 over 10.3 ? Message-ID: <1b3df6d2-a430-89d1-8b13-3353ab834844@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <20170818074902.GA91334@gmail.com> References: <VI1PR02MB1200E48789933A9BCAAAECD4F6800@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20170818074902.GA91334@gmail.com>
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On 18/08/2017 17:19, Matt Smith wrote: > On Aug 18 07:35, Manish Jain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am going to have to install FreeBSD again on a box on which 10.3R >> works well. Is there any reason I should prefer 11.1R ? >> >> Thanks for any tips. >> Manish Jain > > The main reason for 11.1 would be the expected end of life date when > 10.3 will no longer be supported. As you can see from > https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup that is April 30, > 2018 whereas 11.1 will be 3 months after the release of 11.2. > > Obviously you can upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4, or from 10.3 to 11.2, and > from 11.1 to 11.2 quite easily, but it's easier to start with 11 than it > is to start with 10 and do a major version upgrade. > > Unless there are any strange issues particular to your hardware 10 and > 11 should work identically really. > 11.1 includes bhyve improvements which include vnc support. That means you can get a gui connection to the bhyve instance during boot. I believe many other bhyve improvements are not being added to 10.x -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler
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