Re: 6.0 release date and stability

From: P.U.Kruppa (root_at_pukruppa.de)
Date: 10/16/05

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    Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:48:11 +0200 (CEST)
To: *** hoogendijk <***@nagual.st>

    On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, *** hoogendijk wrote:

    > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:03:53 -0400
    > "Joshua Coombs" <jcoombs@gwi.net> wrote:
    >
    >> For what it's worth, on UP, my 386 (stop laughing) is showing twice
    >> the inbound and outbound tcp throughput across multiple apps compared
    >> to 4.11. Disk throughput is slightly higher, but nothing super
    >> impressive. If 6.0 can show gains on a 386, that tells me there is
    >> some actual merit to the changes.
    >
    > The news I read about fFreeBSD-6.0 is quit good lately. I might even
    > upgrade my 5.4 box. I'm told it will be a rather smooth proces.
    For my private Desktop machine I didn't run into any problems -
    and I am no kind of FreeBSD guru.

    >
    > The *ONLY* question is: will I need to *recompile* all installed ports
    > if I go from 5.4 to 6.0 release?
    Probably not, but there are about 13000 (or so) ports available.
    I guess you will have to try and find out.
    You should be cautious if you depend on OpenOffice.org , this
    stuff is always quite sensitive, though I have got 2.0Beta
    running very well.

    Regards,

    Uli.

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