Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-11 Thread Dan Lukes
Mark Linimon wrote: From a ports standpoint: absolutely not. We are currently trying to support 4 major CVS branches. Although we still have some dedicated committers who are trying to keep the Ports Collection running on 4.X, they are falling further and further behind, especially as the rate

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-11 Thread Dan Lukes
hree months after 6.3-RELEASE is worse but still acceptable. It's my $0.02 Dan P.S. Please note the english isn't my native language. -- Dan Lukes SISAL MFF UK AKA: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EM

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-12 Thread Dan Lukes
to a broken air-conditioner), I have now moved on. I'm also preparing to transition, but it's first time I'm changing better version and thinking I'm upgrading to worse system than previous Despite of anything I sayd, we should thank for the whole team for it's

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-12 Thread Dan Lukes
Doug Barton wrote: The main problem is - 6.x is still not competitive replacement for 4.x. I'm NOT speaking about old unsupported hardware - I speaked about performance in some situation and believe in it's stability. I think saying that it's a worse replacement is a bit too broad.

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

2006-10-12 Thread Dan Lukes
Danial Thom wrote: The right thing to do is to port the SATA support and new NIC support back to 4.x and support both. 4.x is far superior on a Uniprocessor system and FreeBSD-5+ may be an entire re-write away from ever being any good at MP. Come to terms with it, PLEASE, because it is the case a

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-12 Thread Dan Lukes
mitting PR. MFC is not automatic even for RELENG_6 branch ... You should know that best supported branch of FreeBSD is HEAD ... ;-) Dan -- Dan Lukes SISAL MFF UK AKA: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL