upgrade questions 4.10 -> 5-stable

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

Gregor Mosheh wrote:

>I thought I'd ask here...
>
>I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10, and would like to
>upgrade to a 5.x because of the superior jail support.
>
>Which version would you recommend for someone who's
>really interested in jail support, but doesn't like to
>live dangerously? Of my hardware, the only item of
>note is that I use FreeBSD 4.10's ehci driver for USB
>2.0 devices.
>
>One of the notes in /usr/src/UPDATING was that GCC had
>been upgraded from my current 2.95 to 3.4 and there
>are known compatibility problems with the ABI (what's
>an ABI? the .so's?) Will this upgrade force me to
>recompile all of my existing C++ stuff, e.g. Postgres
>and PostGIS, or will my existing binaries continue to
>run?
>
>  
>
I would wait until well after 5.3-RELEASE.  There are several bugs in 
5.3 that still exist and I don't expect to see them all worked out 
before the release.  There is a USB bug that causes a sig 12 during 
printing to a USB printer under certain circumstances.  EHCI used to 
force reboots on my machine, but it has been awhile since I checked it 
out.  There are simply a lot of reports of lockups and reboots that 
would keep me wary for a long time to come [if I had an aversity to risk 
as you indicate].

Tom Veldhouse

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