4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X?

Don O'Neil don at lizardhill.com
Mon Feb 27 12:52:33 PST 2006


So, if you were me you _would_ install 6.0? Any issues I could expect
running my 4.X binaries? 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:47 PM
To: Don O'Neil
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; 'Bj?rn K?nig'
Subject: Re: 4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X?

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:35:24PM -0800, Don O'Neil wrote:
> I haven't tried running them yet, I'm just asking since I'm planning 
> on building a new server and would prefer to use 5.x or 6.x rather 
> than 4.11 which my old server is running.
> 
> I guess the best way to find out is to try... I was just asking if 
> there _could_ be any issues.
> 
> If you were in my position, would you install 5.4 or 6.0? I noticed 
> there are quite a lot of changes in 6.0 and it requires at least 5.3 
> for upgrade purposes... So my question is, is it really ready for 'prime
time'?

Absolutely yes.

Kris



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