From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 04:18:58 2008 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 0EF4C16A417 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:18:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC90013C43E for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:18:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so1491193rvb.43 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:18:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=jtdnb5yHlftOj/VtZHd6fkEecMBrpW80BAp2Ykvp0bA=; b=DGVUYuyYuEZQgLFusdT8F1qqiWKSgXe9EQYX77YTXvDayP9eclO+4+faPIaKeCEUsY5tqPfPNboJBUReU519cDXmMQ8Ggj+nL9aPeFCcOsVKW1IrAsgT23vgQuIFFA3Y4ftHHM7NMVP9BOOxznDY/TmCjVMJoEFdmMvO7iwpWRk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NmyrOIT3eVQHusQBwUwf63qwgYWivAw0gsWbBZV1YMfGepnU0dxIBvWljxP6WQH6mvLbzJ02K2MzEwyzf+f8hX+U0GWvDoCfuKqsnqC9OLgQVSd6udhVQQlRuPYHvJSPdCQi2mNsGwg1wshrOKG6qi8HuNIzH0obv8dE2MY+NT4= Received: by 10.140.54.6 with SMTP id c6mr3576532rva.37.1200802734988; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:18:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.142.18 with HTTP; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:18:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54db43990801192018y1cdae24exf20ac2ad9c346e7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:18:54 -0500 From: "Bob Johnson" To: Chris In-Reply-To: <20080119213604.08b35c61@makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080119213604.08b35c61@makeworld.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Now that 6.3 ... 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: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:18:58 -0000 On 1/19/08, Chris wrote: > Now that 6.3 is official, I have to assume that 7.0 is very near? > > -- > Best regards, > Chris I think 7.0 is very near, but not because of the status of 6.3. When a release is in the RC stage, it is very near full release unless something very significant is found by user testing. There are enough potential problems being posted that I wouldn't be surprised to see another release candidate, but perhaps all of those will turn out to be minor issues and the next thing that will happen is the full release. I have run 7.0 BETAs on several systems and encountered no problems (except that amd64 won't boot on our stupid HP systems with brain dead BIOSes, but i386 works fine on them, KDE and all). I have already put 7.0 on a couple of production DNS servers (well, they are intended for production, but are still in testing). The issues being reported don't seem to be a problem for that use, and I'd rather set up a new server with a new major release than one that is near end of life. - Bob