[fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 12 19:06:58 UTC 2006


Chris Laco wrote:

> From my personal experience of (4) 4.x machines and (1) 5.x  machine, all on
> the same hardware, I've had more problems with my 5.x install than I ever
> did with my 4.x install. I'm afraid to even look to see if 6.0 will run on
> it.

The odds are pretty close to 100% that things will run better with 6.x 
than with 5.x. Many fixes that have been MFC'ed to 6.x have not and 
will not be ported to 5.x.

hth,

Doug

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