Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Nov 24 19:03:03 UTC 2012
Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> writes:
> On 11/24/2012 11:19 AM, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
>> I wouldn't
>> blindly trust and drop an operating system on production servers, no
>> matter how good the feedback from outside my organization sounds.
>
> In general, I'd agree with you. Certainly, that's been the case
> with Linux, AIX, and so on over the years.
I have a very small server of my own for the house, and I generally
update it to major versions within a few weeks of updating. I think I
had it on RELENG_9 within two months of 9.0 being released. As far as I
recall, I had very few problems making the jump.
> But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev
> updates with FreeBSD thus far. The only breakage I am worried about
> now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to
> work just fine. For example, will my make.conf settings be properly
> observed by the new tool chain?
I wouldn't use the new toolchain for this server. The old toolchain is
still the default anyway.
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