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Subject: Re: Stable server
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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, dpk wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Carstea Catalin wrote:
>
> > what version of freebsd do u recomand for a stable server?
>
> 4.11 is solid, hasn't shown any problems here. 5.4 is the best of the 5.x
> series but we (I mean at my company, not speaking as a FreeBSD rep)
> haven't put it through as much stress as we have 4.11 .

I forgot to mention the other reason I recommend 4.11 first:

http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html

4.11-R is scheduled to receive security updates 8 months longer than
5.4-R, which may be relevant if you want to stick with a specific version
for a while.