Colin: We'd like to. But we need the servers we're building to outperform Linux in file and database operations, and they only do that under 4.11.
Also, the 6.1 release engineering page showed some worrisome problems -- including such things as potential problems with the Intel "fxp" and "em" drivers (which we absolutely can't have). It's gone now, but while it was up it said that work on those issues was still in progress, that the fixes needed testing, and/or that they were being deferred to the next release. So, some of these machines will have to get 4.11. We can't be on the cutting edge all of the time when we're making production servers. In some cases, what we need is a tried-and-true version with bug fixes. --Brett Glass At 11:04 AM 5/16/2006, Colin Percival wrote:
If you absolutely must run FreeBSD 4.11, install the RELEASE and then run FreeBSD Update. Personally, since FreeBSD 4.11 will reach its EoL about 8 months from now, and the 4.x->[56].x upgrade path is non-trivial, I recommend installing FreeBSD 6.1 instead. Colin Percival
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