RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Freminlins Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:37 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems Ted, Why don't you do us all a favour and shut up. Probably because

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 6:45 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems On Nov 19, 2005, at 5:10 AM, Ted

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 6:08 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: David Kelly; FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems You keep talking like the laptop market

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-22 Thread Freminlins
Ted, On 11/22/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped a massive load of nonsense] Why don't you do us all a favour and shut up. Your posts are off-topic and a waste of storage bytes. AFAIK this mailing list is not your personal soap box. Frem.

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-22 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:37:04 +0100 Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted, On 11/22/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped a massive load of nonsense] Why don't you do us all a favour and shut up. Your posts are off-topic and a waste of storage bytes. AFAIK this mailing

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dinesh Nair Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 3:16 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Michael Vince; Peter Clutton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems On 11/19/05 17:28

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently released as STABLE and the conventional wisdom said not to use it in production until the 5.3 release. Is there any such conventional wisdom as regards 6.x? my home system is actually production system that can't be stopped for a long time.

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dinesh Nair Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 5:07 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Michael Vince; Peter Clutton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems On 11/17/05 20

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:33 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: David Kelly; FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:28 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems Ted. Apple did play some games

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-19 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/19/05 17:28 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: Absolute total rubbish. Let's take one of these developing countries - China PRC - shall we? right, pick a country which has seen billions in investment flowing in over the last 5 years and use that as an example. shall we consider

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:43 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:33 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: David Kelly; FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 19, 2005, at 5:10 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:28 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Status of 6.0

Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of 6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-19 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
Consider that when MacOS moved to UNIX that all the UNIX software vendors could now easily port their applications to Macintosh. Excuse me, sir. Your discussion is pretty impressive and I have been reading it with care. Honestly, I am far from having a distant enough picture of the whole say

Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of 6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Additionally, Apple had AU/X running on Macs before even machten. Natively. Chad On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: Consider that when MacOS moved to UNIX that all the UNIX software vendors could now easily port their applications to Macintosh. Excuse me, sir. Your

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:46 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:14 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems Ted It would be nice if you could

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dinesh Nair Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:58 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Michael Vince; Peter Clutton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems On 11/15/05 12:23

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Kelly Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:38 PM To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:13:54PM

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/17/05 20:35 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: In the tropics you are flooded with free energy streaming down on you all day long and your complaining?!?!? Please, search Google for the term photovoltaic and be enlightened. photovoltaic arrays and solar energy panels are not as

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 17, 2005, at 5:18 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:14 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Status of 6.0

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: In real world use my 256MB G4-400 MacOS X 10.4.3 Powerbook is faster than my 512MB 2GHz WinXP Pro box at work. But - Chad said that the G4 is a no-go? That the G5 was an absolute requirement for laptop use? Yet your saying that a G4

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The plan is to come out with new gear every few years so as to extract money from the customer base. As I already said in my first post, lots of people are like you - perfectly happy NOT buying the latest Apple product. Apple wants

[summary] Apple intel transition (was: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 17, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The plan is to come out with new gear every few years so as to extract money from the customer base. As I already said in my first post, lots of people are like you

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-16 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
Wow, did this thread veer off-topic! On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:50:40PM +, Chris wrote: That is indeed a waste but consider that in that year the PC at 150 watts This is probably a high estimate, especially for an older, single-cpu box. has consumed 60 times as much power as the router

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-16 Thread Chris
Mark Bucciarelli wrote: Wow, did this thread veer off-topic! It did rather ;) but it's an important topic for us energy users. On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:50:40PM +, Chris wrote: That is indeed a waste but consider that in that year the PC at 150 watts This is probably a high

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-15 Thread Chris
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Vince While most people aren't using a pentium 1 to run a water sprinkler system, there are a countless amount of people using machines for things that aren't

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:57 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ted

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-15 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Ted It would be nice if you could at least get your facts straight (continued below) On Nov 15, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: A lot of people wondered how Steve Jobs could dare change over to Intel chips. In Steve Jobs

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-15 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:13:54PM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Ted It would be nice if you could at least get your facts straight Agreed. There is no software obsolescence issue. Besides making it quite easy to port software to OS X Intel for most people, since the

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-15 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/15/05 12:23 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: Hmm - let's see now, where does this extra wasted power go? It is turned into heat. Which heats your house. Which means you do not have to run the furnace so much, thus saving energy there. that's a very geocentric view. for most of us

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Michael Vince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:59 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Admittedly if Microsoft were

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Vince Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 7:48 PM To: Peter Clutton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems I prefer the idea of the FreeBSD

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: A lot of people wondered how Steve Jobs could dare change over to Intel chips. In Steve Jobs keynote speech announcing the big move Intel chips was just about entirely stated as because of the 'performance per watt ratio' of Intel CPUs.

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Michael Vince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Ted Mittelstaedt'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems Gayn Winters wrote: There are some things broken

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Vince
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Admittedly if Microsoft were trying to make Windows XP run well on a 486 it wouldn't be nearly as a likable OS it is today. That's not true either. If Microsoft were trying to make it work on a 486 it would run a lot better on bigger hardware because they would

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Vince
I prefer the idea of the FreeBSD team aiming at only the latest hardware, all I use is brand new server equipment. I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development could be hampered by the core guys trying to make stuff work on old hardware, in fact if it was a fact that

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/11/05, Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its the same for the Internet if Gates had not put a 'get on the Internet now' icon on all those win95 and 98 during the pc boom days to trigger peoples interest the Internet it wouldn't be as cheap or as fast as it is for end consumers.

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:47 PM 11/11/2005, Michael Vince wrote: I prefer the idea of the FreeBSD team aiming at only the latest hardware, all I use is brand new server equipment. I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development could be hampered by the core guys trying to make stuff work on

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:49:29PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 11/9/05, John Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently released as STABLE and the conventional wisdom said not to use it in production until the 5.3 release. Is there any such

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
in the atacontrol program. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Fox Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:23 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Status of 6.0 for production systems I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Gayn Winters
There are some things broken in 5.4 that are still broken in 6.0 with regards to support of older hardware. In particular the ida driver is a mess - EISA support in that was busted years ago, then 5.X busted support for more 'modern' systems like the Compaq 1600R HP DL series of systems

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Danny Howard
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:14:25AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: As I understand it, 6.0 is primarily concentrating on improving some of the major stuff introduced in 5.x, and shouldn't take nearly as long to become a stable platform. Even so, conventional wisdom generally warns against

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
Danny Howard wrote: So ... I am genuinely curious ... if 6.0 is basically 5.4 plus improvements, why isn't it called 5.5? FreeBSD numbers releases based on compatibility, not based on features. You can take programs compiled for FreeBSD 5.3 (the first release from the 5-stable branch) and run

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Danny Howard
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote: Danny Howard wrote: So ... I am genuinely curious ... if 6.0 is basically 5.4 plus improvements, why isn't it called 5.5? FreeBSD numbers releases based on compatibility, not based on features. You can take programs compiled

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
Danny Howard wrote: So, the 6.0 denotes some note-worthy realignment of the symbol table or such. Thank you for an excellent answer, Colin. Some of us were secretly worried that FreeBSD was catching a case of the Sun Marketing. :) If we were suffering from versionitis, we would have

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:00:48AM -0800, Danny Howard wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:14:25AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: As I understand it, 6.0 is primarily concentrating on improving some of the major stuff introduced in 5.x, and shouldn't take nearly as long to become a stable

RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:03 AM To: 'Ted Mittelstaedt'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems There are some things broken in 5.4

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Vince
Gayn Winters wrote: There are some things broken in 5.4 that are still broken in 6.0 with regards to support of older hardware. In particular the ida driver is a mess - EISA support in that was busted years ago, then 5.X busted support for more 'modern' systems like the Compaq 1600R HP DL

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:35:16PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: Gayn Winters wrote: I prefer the idea of the FreeBSD team aiming at only the latest hardware, all I use is brand new server equipment. I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development could be hampered

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:35:16PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development could be hampered by the core guys trying to make stuff work on old hardware, in fact if it was a fact that a lot more performance and features could be in

Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-09 Thread John Fox
I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently released as STABLE and the conventional wisdom said not to use it in production until the 5.3 release. Is there any such conventional wisdom as regards 6.x? Thanks, John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Fox, Senior Systems Administrator InfoStructure

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 05:23:13PM -0800, John Fox wrote: I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently released as STABLE and the conventional wisdom said not to use it in production until the 5.3 release. Is there any such conventional wisdom as regards 6.x? FreeBSD 6.0 is the most

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-09 Thread Bob Johnson
On 11/9/05, John Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently released as STABLE and the conventional wisdom said not to use it in production until the 5.3 release. Is there any such conventional wisdom as regards 6.x? 5.0 introduced a lot of new features