Charles Sprickman made many good point IMO, but one aluded to in Chris's follow up concerns me:
> there is also uneeded cost involved in piurchasing hardware capable of > running 6.x Performance on old boxes & stability interest me, eg the 486s in scanners ( http://berklix.com/scanjet/ & http://madole.net/scanjet/ ) that have become servers, some of which may also be last islands of secret BSD server sanity in companies that have fallen to the Suits edict of "Only boxes blessed by Mickey$oft" ;-) Sure, I can & do cross compile ('cos local make world is Slow), but when shipped & if supporting other server loads, 6.x Might be a problem on eg Am486DX2 66 MHz 16M Ram ? (I got the impression 4.11 to 6.x will slow by about 1.2 ?) Maybe most people are running (like me on ~ 20 boxes) mostly 4.11 & 6.1, so perhaps that suggestion to drop 5.x rather than 4.x makes numeric sense ? Julian -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. http://berklix.org/free-software _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
