Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:14:12 -0400 From: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Upgrade recommendations Message-ID: <200210161314120727.0B4D72FE@mail.speakeasy.net>
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I'm currently running 4.5, and want to upgrade my machine and was
wondering what you might have for recommendations.
It has dual 333mhz Pentium II cpus, an S3 video card, 256mb RAM
and a 20gb hard drive - not cutting edge hardware by any means!
All it does is serve my small web sites via Apache and run some
low volume mailing lists via Mailman. It isn't kept too busy,
but it shouldn't be down for long periods nonetheless.
I'm thinking of 3 possible paths:
1] A binary upgrade using the latest 4.x (4.7?)
2] A binary upgrade to 5.0
3] A reformat and complete upgrade to 5.0 - I already have
the web site & mailing list dbs backed up.
As scary as it sounds, I'm leaning towards #3. It seems it
shouldn't be too hard to move the Mailman database stuff
to a new machine, so my main concern is how stable 5.0 is
at this point. I'm willing (heck, even want) to play with
some bleeding edge technology, but I do need it to be
running with extensive handholding. Is 5.0 at that stage?
--
Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog
http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater
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