The case for FreeBSD

[Steve Ames]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:40:32AM -0900, Andy Firman wrote:
> > I have championed FreeBSD and got it adopted for various purposes
> >  at a number of major clients but I wouldn't  dare recommend 5.3.
> 
> Your comments are disturbing.  I run a few 4.10 servers and am getting ready
> for a couple new ones and would like to go with 5.3 stable.

There were a LOT of early problems with 5.X. Most were ironed out prior
to 5.3R. I'm running 5-STABLE (1/31/05) on a production server and it runs
just fine. Going to 5.X has a lot of serious advantages. In my case SATA
was the deciding factor.

For a while 5.X was pretty iffy. A number of people who tried it at that
time are still stuck with that impression. IMHO, its unjustified.

-Steve