End-of-life for my amd64 ?

[NetOpsCenter]

Ivan Voras wrote:

> NetOpsCenter wrote:
>
>> I have been using FreeBSD 7.0  since Jan  8 2007  CURRENT on this box 
>> which is a desktop for browsing and email  with a Dual core AMD CPU 
>> setup.
>> It rocks.
>>
>> I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old 
>> hardware and it is rock solid. I believe the FreeBSD team has really 
>> got their act together on this one.
>
>
> Are you using any of the new features in 7.x? SCHED_ULE, ZFS? Because 
> my only 7.x production server that does crashes daily (luckily it's 
> not a critical machine) and non-server machines are not far behind. If 
> you're not using the "new" features, you could just as well run 6.x :)
>
> I'm actively trying to solve some of these problems, but from my 
> experience (I do a lot of things that may be considered 
> "experimental", but mostly userland-side, I run "vanilla" kernels) 7 
> simply isn't stable yet. It might be in 7.0, but it's not yet.
>
>
>
I dont believe I use anything exotic. ZFS is not used either.

My needs are simple and I  have found 7 CURRENT works on several nic 
cards that I had problems with using in previous versions.

 
 
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