Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:35 -0600
Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:

> I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that
> provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain.  This is not
> a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid
> (which FBSD 4-8 have been).

why would you like to break a running system?
> 
> I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family.  Is this branch ready

I would stay with 8.x until the end of its support and move only then
to a new branch. It could be then 9.x or 10.y. I would then - but only
then - prefer the 10.y branch.

I retired my 7.4 only because of lightning strike this spring.

Robustness is my main goal here. Any change which brings only the risk
is avoided.

Irony is now that I am writing you this on a 10.0 machine. Only 10 has
had the support I needed for my new toy.

Erich