Gary Kline wrote: > Sounds like an ambitious schedule... All my FBSD servers > are at least up to 5.3; my laptop is happy at 5.4. I have > what I believe to be a rationalquestion. Why should I go > beyond v5.5? There is one school of thought that says you shouldn't. If it works for you, there is no real need to upgrade. > More to the point, why can't minor security > tweaks be maintained indefinitely for 5.5? We don't support any branch of FreeBSD indefinitely. > What will > releases -6 and -7 offer that can;t reasonably be dropped > into -5? New features that require protocol/ABI changes, etc. for one. For example, I'm working on adding ports/local rc.d scripts to the overall rcorder, and that change won't go back into RELENG_5 because it constitutes a major paradigm shift, and we don't mess with -stable branches in that way. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protectionReceived on Fri Dec 16 2005 - 08:17:14 UTC
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