Re: which version to install for next 2-3 years?

On 10/20/07, Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev_at_moneybookers.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> syle ishere wrote:
> > I have a coloed box, OS on their now is ancient redhat 9.0, was
> > thinking about new SMP support and mysql speed advancements in 7.0.
> > I'd just hate to install 6.2 on it right now and thats way it stays
> > for next 2-3 years if 7.0 is stable enough to use right now. I threw
> > away freebsd boxes on 4.x branches because of SMP issues of it only
> > using 1 processor for mysql etc, but I see alot has changed again.
> > Server is a dell 2650, 8 gigs of ram, dual 3.2ghz xeon cpu's, 6 scsi
> > drives. I use this box mainly for apache/php, mysql, qmail,bind, perl
> > and asterisk c development time to time.
> >
> > If I download latest snapshot, cvsup latest 7release and just make
> > world etc on it, would it be alright? I see the new scheduler for 7.0
> > had some nice benchmarks for mysql.
> Nobody can answer your question :) You should try it and if it works for
> you then great.
> I personally installed on my laptop FreeBSD 7 (current) few months ago
> and I'm quite happy with it.
> I also have dell 2650 running FreeBSD7 (i386) from Aug, and the only
> thing that is not recognized is
> "Embedded Systems Management Device" and even "ipmi" does work, but my
> server is not heavily loaded.
> >
> > Dan.
> >
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> Best Wishes,
> Stefan Lambrev
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