From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 10 19:48:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710A514F20 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:48:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 11wdWb-000Dpp-00; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 03:48:49 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA56541 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 03:48:48 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 03:48:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: softupdates... the sequel Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So, for an average joe running FreeBSD on a laptop with an UltraIDA drive (i guess that matters now ;-) does it make any sense to install softupdates? Or is it negligible? Or am i sacrificing reliability? Just so i don't look foolish, here is m guess: Yes, i will gain some performance No, i will not lose reliability Correct me if i'm wrong. ;-) -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message