Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:40:00 -0800 From: lee slaughter <lee@slaughters.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ??? Message-ID: <40452960.1000906@slaughters.com>
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I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid.
I went down to the tech book store and bought freeBSD on CD's.
it happened to be 5.1.
I, a neophyte, assumed it was "kosher".
I bought it and installed it on 2 machines and pretty much ok so far.
Now I've been reading about the STABLE and CURRENT branches
and cvsup and all other kinds of "keeping up".
What I want is production boxs with of course bug fix and
security upgrades, but not needing always the latest app releases.
I've tried to grok the release engineering and all but I don't get it.
I'm going to put freeBSD on 2 other machines as well,
but don't know whether
to install 4.9, use my 5.1 CD's (and then presumably have to
go to 5.2 + ??? to keep up?), 5.2 or what. Not to mention the
2 already installed.
I want to keep all 4 machines pretty much in synch.
thanks for any clarification i can get on:
1. which is best "production" version
2. what is best essential upkeep mechanism (not so much for apps
but for bug fixes in OS and security fixes/patches on essential stuff
like OpenSsh)
thanks much...........
lee
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