On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:31:39PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:20:19PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > About a week ago I finally upgraded my DNS server from 5.3-S > > to 5.5. I see that I still caught a -prerelease" kernel. > > Any ETA of when 5.5 will be -stable? (Most of my other > > FBSD server can be not quite//less than stable. But if my > > DNS srver bites the dust, .... ) > > No-one is really working on back-porting changes to 5.5, so what you > see now is likely to be almost identical to what you'll get as > 5.5-release. > > > Also, is 5.5 the LAST of the 5's? > > Yes, development of the branch is effectively ended since the world > has moved on to 6.x. The only reason 5.5 was released was to batch up > some of the changes made since 5.4, mostly made last year. >
Makes sense, thanks. I'm at 5.4 and 5.5 everywhere so the next step is to move to 6. I'm only a bit surprised that things went to well with 5.5. (But then FBSD has only crashed one time in ten years, :-), and that speaks volumes. gary PS: Any big gotchas in goingfrom 5.5 -> 6.1??? Kris? Anybody?? -g -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"