Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

Greetings,
 I have been on FreeBSD since the start. As a hobby until 3.x where I
began to replace Winblows servers with FBSD. I stayed with 4.2 the longest.
I still have 2 servers running it. However, I decided to test 5.0-RC2 on a
lightly used server. My reason for the upgrade decision was the fact that
some of the applications I used in 4.x were a little immature, not as
rhobust, or as stable as I would prefer.
My upgrade path = tar cvgf /etc, /root, /var, /usr/home, /usr/local/etc,
and /usr/local/www. Then booting to the 5.0-RC2 CD and performing a "fresh"
install. Afterwhich I simply merged by backed-up settings and important
files. A little while later I used the same upgrade method to upgrade a
*heavily* used server. All seemed *mostly* O.K. But security issues
were reported. Attempts to go the "patch" route failed miserably. I also
found the security patch routes "intuitiveness" !> -1. The patches
clobbered my src files and so I decided to go a different route - I chose
to burn the 5.3-STABLE CD's, boot to #1 and choose "upgrade" from the
insrtallation routine(s). I did *NOT* attempt this before backing up the
important nodes listed above. Well, this route didn't turn out to be the
most ideal route. So I ultimately blew all the slices away and performed a
fresh install of 5.3-STABLE and merge my previous settings/ folders as
needed. All in all life on 5.x and the "upgrade" wasn't too bad. I will
say that there is ONE issue that I have found and have not yet solved. It
now takes at least 2 times longer to build any of the ports. Performance
in other areas seems to be lagging as well. I have since upgraded one of
the 2 servers to 5.4-RC2 and have been chasing 5.x ever since hoping to
find the performance issues will dissappear.

Just my experiences thus far FWIW.

-Chris

>
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Patrick Dung wrote:
>
>> I have read the recent status report.
>> IMHO, FreeBSD 5-stable is still not as stable as 4.x series. FreeBSD-5
>> will have a short livetime when FreeBSD-6 comes.
>
> Ah, the "word on the street"; the usual claims without facts to back them.
>
> 5.x's undue and unjust reputation is precisely one of the reasons why 6.x
> is coming so soon. The other reasons have been outlined by Scott in a
> string of emails. Search the archives, if you are interested.
>
> If there is something you know about "5.x's stability" that we do not,
> please go ahead and share it with us.
>
>> May someone who work in large companies tell us their experience that
>> FreeBSD 4 or 5 is installed for servers now, please?
>
> At work, we have dozens of machines running 5.3 right now. In fact, my
> work is drawing up plans to phase out our last handful of 4.x servers.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
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