Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:11:05PM -0500, DAve wrote:
Really you want to use 6.0 or 6.1 on any new system, simply because
that's the modern, supported version of FreeBSD.
Kris
I get frightened when something is no longer "modern" when it is less
than a year old. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html
Good reasons to recommend 6.X would be "bug FOO is fixed", "hardware FOO
is now fully supported", "FOO is now a kernel module and can be unloaded
or loaded at will", "disk performance is gazillion% better", etc.
If it makes you happy, all of those things are also true.
Kris
It would be nice to actually tell new users why 6.X is better wouldn't
you think? Simply saying you should use it because it is new, is a page
from RedHat's book.
So please don't be trite, it looks bad in the archives later when new
users are searching for information. It also does little to answer the
user's question. Better that new users get several descriptive answers
to their query, even if the answers disagree, than to get cute remarks.
So to help him out, here are a few reasons you, Joseph Vella, should
look into using 6.X over 4.X if you are still interested.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html#NEW
Of interest (IMO) is Jails, GEOM, and ACL. All of which I've seen
mentioned several times on other lists. Users seem to be deploying these
features a lot. I am sure there is more, but they would be features I am
not following or currently have no use for.
I am impressed with GEOM, I have three new backup servers using gmirror
and gstripe as a test and I am quite happy with it. Much easier than
using vinum with 4.X if you need software mirroring.
Best of luck,
DAve
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