challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Stephen Clark]

Scott Long wrote:
> Jo Rhett wrote:
>> Okay, I totally understand that FreeBSD wants people to upgrade from 
>> 6.2 to 6.3.  But given that 6.3 is still experiencing bugs with things 
>> that are working fine and stable in 6.2, this is a pretty hard case to 
>> make.
> 
> Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you?
> 
>>
>> This is also a fairly significant investment in terms of time and 
>> money for any business to handle this ugprade.  It totally understand 
>> obsoleting 5.x now that 7.x is out.  But 6.2 is barely a year old...
>>
> 
> The expectation is always that newer versions of a stable branch will 
> have few regressions, and thus upgrading is a low risk.
> 
> Scott
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Can just the kernel be upgraded or does all of user space have to be
upgrades to.

How would someone recommend upgrading 500 hundred remote sites spread throughout
the US?

Thanks,
Steve
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