Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:04:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle@gmail.com>, Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations? Message-ID: <20060619130452.17965.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060619111155.GB4589@gothmog.pc>
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--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2006-06-19 12:33, Erik Trulsson > <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:11:38PM +0300, > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>On 2006-06-17 11:29, Dan Bikle > <dan.bikle@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Anish, > >>> > >>> Thanks this is good info. > >>> > >>> I'll be using this server for development > of a Ruby on Rails. > >>> > >>> Currently I do development on a Mac. > >>> > >>> My production server is running freeBSD 5.3 > >> > >> You shouldn't be running a production server > with 5.3 at all. > >> > >> The 5.3 release was clearly marked as a > "developer preview" release > > > > No, it was not. 5.3 was a perfectly ordinary > release. It was in fact > > the first 5.x release that was *not* marked > as a "developer preview". > > You're right. I must have been thinking of > 5.2.1. > > Sorry for the misinformation :-/ I'd say that a $55. celeron on Freebsd 4.11 would be just as fast as a Sempron an 5.3, so why not save some money and get something that everyone knows is "production ready"? DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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