From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 10:14:15 2002 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 6CA1B37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B5043E97 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 32321 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2002 17:14:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO max) ([66.92.76.225]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Oct 2002 17:14:13 -0000 Message-ID: <200210161314120727.0B4D72FE@mail.speakeasy.net> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:14:12 -0400 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Upgrade recommendations Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message