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

Just a lurker, and FreeBSD users since late 3.0...

Problem is performance and trust in stability. It's
money and hardware independent problem.

5.x has significant performance hit, so we can't count
it as competitive replacement for 4.x. 6.1 is second release
in 6.x tree. 6.0 has stability problem. The 6.1 is
sufficiently stable on average use, but it still has problems
in edge situations. The 6.2 become first RELEASE in 6.x tree
acceptable for serious production use. 6.3 will be candidate
for first trustable RELEASE if there will not be significant
problem with 6.2. It's nothing special on major version
changes - 3.0 has been buggy, 4.0 has been buggy, 5.0 has
been almost unusable. It's common for other systems also -
first usable release of Novell Netware in 3.x tree has been
3.11 (after buggy 3.0 and 3.1), but stable release has been
3.12 for example.

Oddly enough, I've heard this very sentiment elsewhere this week. Take the
post with a grain of salt, but it does touch on the matter.

http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal/31273

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.

Just another $0.000000002.

-=Chris
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