HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Fri Dec 16 03:31:20 PST 2005


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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:50:05AM -0800, Rob wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long
> wrote:
> > 
> >>All,
> >>
> >>The following is the approximate schedule for
> FreeBSD releases in 2006:
> >>
> > 	Sounds like an ambitious schedule...  All  my FBSD
> servers 
> > 	are at least up to 5.3; my laptop is happy at 5.4. 
> I have
> > 	what I believe to be a rationalquestion.  
> 
> A "me too" here for 5-Stable.
> 
> I have a test PC, that was running 5-Stable using an
> additional swapfile to extend swap space. Never any
> problems at all with 5.
> 
> After upgrading to 6-stable, I got regular hang-ups of
> the system (endless loop?) when swapspace is used
> extensively. Never happened with 5.

I have to add my vote for 6, as did someone else in an earlier post. 
Like some others, I always found 5.x a bit slower than 4.x  (No
benchmarks, completely subjective.)  From the very beginning, I've found
6.x to be stable and quickly moved some non-critical servers to it.

After testing, we moved the more critical servers to it as well, and
have been quite happy withe results.  

Again, completely subjective, but from the beginning 6.x seemed faster
and more responsive than 5.x


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