From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 11:29:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from drex.staff.izr.com (drex.staff.izr.com [195.26.38.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CA737B415 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:29:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by drex.staff.izr.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 83D3D337A8; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:29:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:29:13 +0100 From: Mark Drayton To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Stable vs. Release Message-ID: <20010913192913.B2501@drex.staff.izr.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <1000393832.3ba0cc6869af3@www.hboss.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1000393832.3ba0cc6869af3@www.hboss.net>; from webmaster@hboss.net on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:10:32AM -0600 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 Al Kwan (webmaster@hboss.net) wrote: > So I'm curious to get your opinions on FBSD and "production-only" > servers. What version # and stable/release do you tend to use? I install the most recent -RELEASE version, cvsup to the security release branch (currently RELENG_4_3) and then make world. Unless you have bleeding edge hardware or there is a real clanger in -RELEASE this should give you a very stable platform without the need to continually build -STABLE test boxes or worry about different machines being at slightly different points in the -STABLE tree. Generally speaking the only updates I apply from then are security fixes from the security branch and an upgrade to each -RELEASE (as security patches are normally against the most recent release). Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message