From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 04:43:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B08B8106567D for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:43:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbiquez@icsmx.com) Received: from intranet.com.mx (intranet.com.mx [200.33.246.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C79E8FC1E for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from PC2.icsmx.com (189.245.46.197) by icsmx.com with ESMTP (EIMS X 3.3.9) for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:29:15 -0600 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:29:13 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jorge Biquez Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Message-ID: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> Subject: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:43:17 -0000 Hello all. I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x and after doing all the process finally I can not have it running corrcetly. Not a big problem since a secondary DNS an an email server for one domain. I am still trying to recover it downloading and installing the sae version it has but in case I can not fix I would like to install a mor erecent version. The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. It won't do anything else but a dns slave for maybe 100 domains, mail and squirrel for 10 domain, not more than 100 users with very low volume. That's all. Can you give me your opinions on what would you? - To re-install the version that it used to has from zero and let it work again for some other years. - Try a new version (maybe it is more secure or faster) and if so..... which one? (in all these years even when the machine is on the Internet and LOT of people has tried to hacked it daily, in all these years we have never had a problem.) Thanks in advance for your advice. Jorge Biquez PS. By the way. I left these lists for almost a year as well as the OS (global crisis force us to look for survival jobs) anyway now that I am back I can see again that you guys in the list, the ones that develop and contribute with Freebsd are the best one in the quality of the technical messages. Keep working that way and thanks for letting us learn from you.