Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:48:28 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? Message-ID: <50B140AC.2000804@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> References: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB3EE551347934A3FA8AF2E7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 24/11/2012 16:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready > for production or should I wait a while yet? I ordinarily avoid x.0 > releases of anything and I know 9.1 is soon going to be with us. 9-STABLE works for me. I've run into a few quite minor bugs, but certainly nothing really significant. Stability is rock-solid as ever. > In a related note, if I do move to 9.x is it sufficient to grab the > appropriate source tree and compile world and kernels, install and > reboot? That is, it is reasonable to do an in-place upgrade. This > is how I migrated 4->6, 6->7, and 7->8 and I am hoping this is till > the case since a complete reinstall is painful and slow. Upgrading by compiling world+kernel from source is an effective method. Works just as well for 8->9 as for any of the previous upgrades you mention. It is not however sufficient to get you a completely upgraded system: you will still have to re-install all of your ports. Otherwise, as you end up trying to upgrade ports by ones and twos over time, you'll end up with a complete rat's nest of contradictory shared library dependencies and programs crashing left, right and centre. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enigB3EE551347934A3FA8AF2E7C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCxQLYACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyt6wCfUG06wB66hrma0kmBU8e3Pprp tW0An1nXlkKZoLESaSV1FHJcS7NE9MH1 =beIA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB3EE551347934A3FA8AF2E7C--
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