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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
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Subject: Re: To 6.3 or to 7.0 that is the question?
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> I know 7 has had a lot of work done on locking and ULE but are there
> any other reasons to go for that instead of 6.3? Conversely are there
> any reason which would point away from 7 such as stability issues?

7 is great - very stable, fast, includes ZFS, has gcc 4.0 and is excellent
in my opinion. I have moved all our production systems to the pre-release
using ULE (after thorough testing) and havent regretted it once.

-pete.