Performance 4.x vs. 6.x (was: e: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon)

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:19:30 -0700 (PDT)
Danial Thom <danial_thom at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Maybe its just time for the entire FreeBSD team
> to come out of its world of delusion and come to
> terms with what every real-life user of FreeBSD
> knows: In how ever many years of development,
> there is still no good reason to use anything
> other than FreeBSD 4.x except that 4.x doesn't

This statement is way too broad, I as a FreeBSD user can vouch for
FreeBSD 6.x - it works in most situations.


> The right thing to do is to port the SATA support
> and new NIC support back to 4.x and support both.

Go ahead - there is nothing stopping you.

> Come to terms with it,
> PLEASE, because it is the case and saying
> otherwise won't change it. 

>From wher I'm sitting (and I'm just a FreeBSD user), it is you who have
to come to terms with the annouced EOL for 4.x

> My prediction is that a  year from now we'll all
> be using DragonflyBSD and you guys will be
> looking for a new bunch of beta-test guinea pigs.

We'll see.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway