Re: Why I should use FBSD 4.9/10 and not 5.2.1?

From: Mike Scott (usenet.9_at_antispam.protection.scottsonline.org.uk)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:59:29 +0100

On Wed, 05 May 2004 00:26:52 +0200, Markus Kolb
<usenet-052004@tower-net.de> wrote:

>Paul Southworth wrote:
>
>> In article <c7925c$17lhl$1@ID-12889.news.uni-berlin.de>,
>> Markus Kolb <usenet-052004@tower-net.de> wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I am wondering about practical negative aspects of installing FreeBSD
>>>5.2.1 instead of 4.9 or 4.10, if released, ...
>>>Can you tell me some important facts why I should use 4.x for an
>>>Internet server?
...
>Ok.
>I've just found some text on freebsd.org that tells that it can be ports
>can not compile in 5.2.1.
>That is a powerful fact to use 4.x.

Unfortunately, there's at least one port (spamd) that is set to
"ignore" on 4.x. For no particularly good reason I can see, as with
minor breakages fixed it compiles perfectly well on 4.9. I don't know
how many other ports are "5.x only" :-( 

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