On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:03:23PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > It's nice that you have been lucky so far, but don't count on that lasting > forever. :) Ports maintainers are actively removing all checks and > patches for making things work on FreeBSD 4.x. At some point, you will > not be able to use the stock ports tree on your 4.x boxes.
Which is a shame, because FreeBSD 4.11 is the latest stable release that is actually *stable* for us :) Although I believe a few days back a few more thread-related stability bugs have been fixed in the kernel and, together with the recent NFS bugs fixed, it Should Now Work Properly (tm)... but until a week or two ago, we had several documented, repeatable ways to crash a FreeBSD 6.x machine (and the FreeBSD developers know about those, so the fixes are either already available or in progress). ... so we're still only just beginning to upgrade our several clusters of FreeBSD 4 machines. -- Jan-Pieter Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> !! Disclamer: The addressee of this email is not the intended recipient. !! !! This is only a test of the echelon and data retention systems. Please !! !! archive this message indefinitely to allow verification of the logs. !! _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
