[fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 13 06:24:54 UTC 2006
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Chris Laco wrote:
> Just a lurker, and FreeBSD users since late 3.0... 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.
6.x is a significantly more refined release series than 5.x ever was, and this
is a result of a lot of very hard work. If you didn't like 5.x, you should
try 6.x and see how it does for you. Don't assume that problems you may have
experienced in 5.x persist. In particular, the whole world of ACPI has
matured drastically in the last 3-4 years, which has resolved a lot of issues
with hardware probing, etc, that existed in earlier 5.x releases. Part of
this is vendors fixing their BIOS's, part of it is improvements in the Intel
ACPI CA code, and part of it is adding blacklisting, workarounds, etc, for
known BIOS problems. File system performance and stability have gone up
drastically, as has network performance and stability. So I would encourage
you to re-evaluate in the 6.x world, ideally with the most recent 6.x release
available. Undoubtably there will be imperfections, but as I hope the 6.x
release processes have revealed, we're working hard to resolve any issues.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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