From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 15:32:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A0E16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:32:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from freep.dyns.net (adsl-63-195-184-80.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.184.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A25B343D5F for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from micheas@micheas.dyns.net) Received: (qmail 28419 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 23:32:31 -0000 Received: from tux.a (HELO tux) (mail@10.0.0.173) by sol.a with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 23:32:31 -0000 Received: from micheas by tux with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AgY1P-0000FA-00; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:32:31 -0800 From: Micheas Herman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44k73vld7e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <64287.195.141.214.38.1073992712.squirrel@hiwatt.lognet.ch> <44k73vld7e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Free Print Shop Message-Id: <1074036751.631.35.camel@tux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:32:31 -0800 Sender: Micheas Herman cc: David Meier Subject: Re: How "safe" is 5.2 to use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: micheas@freep.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:32:51 -0000 On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 14:02, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "David Meier" writes: > > > I am relatively new to the world of FreeBSD. But first, congrats to the > > new release! I am somewhat insecure on how trustfully I can use the new > > release for my intended use (and I hope my questions haven't been posted a > > zillion times before). Therefore I hope the FreeBSD nuts can advise me > > whether to go for 4.9 or 5.2. > > Yes. Um, wait, maybe I'll have more-useful advice after more details. > > > The setup: > > hardware: DELL PowerEdge 1750 (Dual XEON, 2GB RAM, RAID 1). Double check your RAID controler. SMP may or may not be production ready. It was a problem at one point. under a certain condition. I don't have any SMP boxes so I haven't paid much attention. > > web server: Apache 2.0, MySQL 4.0, PHP 4.3.4, Perl 5.8 > > mail server: Postfix, Cyrus IMAPd, Cyrus SASL, Amavis-new, SpamAssassin, > > ClamAV Apache 2.0 will like FreeBSD 5.x better, AFAIK I don't think any of the other apps will care one way or the other. > > Okay, it's pretty new and powerful hardware, and the software is all > fairly widely used. Should be no big deal. > > > The servers will be used for virtual hosting as a small ISP evironment and > > housed about 30min from where I work (in case I have to reset them...). > > That's convenient. > > > I don't know how and if the instability risks may affect such a setup of > > services on the hardware described. Unfortunately, the advisories are kept > > in pretty general language, however, I know it is hard to predict how it > > will be running on a particular system. I just don't know FreeBSD well > > enough to have a 'feel' about it (although I don't rely too much on > > 'feelings' in the world of computers). Is upgrading to 5.2 comparable to, > > say, I upgrade from RedHat 9 to RedHat's newest release? > > > > What I like about the 5.x releases is the possibility of taking file > > system snapshots, for example to back up the mailboxes. > > Okay, so you actually would like features that are specific to 5.x. > That's a good enough reason to try it; from a user point of view, 5.2 > seems to be roughly comparable to 4.9 in dependability. If you can > install and configure the system, 5.2 will probably work well for > you. This implies that you can go through a fairly thorough system > test on your actual hardware before you install the system(s) in their > permanent location (or at least before you bring them into production > use). If you have any trouble that worries you at all, drop back to > 4.9 and install that. > > How's that? -- Micheas Herman email: micheas@freep.org Free Print Shop web: http://www.FreePrintShop.org phone: (415)648-3222 fax: (415)648-4466