From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 22 15:45:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E6737B401; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp09.wxs.nl (smtp09.wxs.nl [195.121.6.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6199743E9C; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:45:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp09.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H604O501.3V4; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 00:45:41 +0100 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 00:42:06 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Personal Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <10525754683.20021123004206@dds.nl> To: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: "FreeBSD Chat" Subject: Re[2]: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? In-Reply-To: <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear/Beste Anthony, Sunday, November 17, 2002, 10:59:37 AM, you wrote: > The most appropriate version of any operating system to run on your server > is the oldest one that meets your requirements. Otherwise you will spend > your life doing someone else's debugging. This policy doesn't help against security bugs. Only a couple of development tries are (officially) supported. All a cracker would have to do is read the bug warnings and use a good one to gain access to you system. I feel that a good production server should not be CURRENT or STABLE but the latest RELEASE on the STABLE tree, unless you got a good reason not to. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message