From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 17 23:27:07 2004 Return-Path: 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 76EBF16A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:27:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from quark.cs.earlham.edu (cs.earlham.edu [159.28.230.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C2743D31 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:27:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (CPE-24-166-129-93.new.rr.com [24.166.129.93]) (authenticated bits=0) by quark.cs.earlham.edu (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBHNQpq8090068 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:27:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Message-ID: <41C36B39.5040605@cs.earlham.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:26:49 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson Organization: Earlham College Computer Science Department User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LeKhoi References: <41C11AA3.10406@mac.com> <41C24E39.6060801@cs.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on quark.cs.earlham.edu X-Earlham-CS-Dept-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Earlham-CS-Dept-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: skylar@cs.earlham.edu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why must boot in single mode. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:27:07 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 LeKhoi wrote: | Thank you Skylar for sharing the information. | | I current have a simple server running RedHat, and wanting to | switch to FreeBSD as I think that FreeBSD would offer better | platform as a server in stability and security patches as such. (Am | I correct here or what ? :-) Yes. Until my current job, I used to be exclusively Red Hat Linux (unless you count the OS/2 box :-) ). Where I work now uses FreeBSD nearly exclusively on the x86 servers, with the only x86 server running Linux out of necessity for SystemImager. Getting started on FreeBSD can be a bit rough, but I'd give the Handbook a good look over and you should be set. ports is a blessing unto itself, and the reliability and good division between production and development branches just makes it that much better than Red Hat. I think the only Linux distro that comes close is Debian. | I am doing all my research just to make sure I am making the | correct decision here. | | And this one about the single user mode is really making me cold | feet at the moment :-) I acutally wouldn't worry about it. We just patch our systems for critical security updates. We still have a bunch of servers running 4.4-RELEASE just because we know it works. I would, however, make sure the data centre staff is willing to look at FreeBSD single-user mode in case something goes FUBAR. | I will contact data centres just to make sure that they have all | the facility needed to boot it into single user mode. Thanks again | | Oh, btw, I have a quick scan on your personal page, very impress | that you are helping to maintain the servers. Would my choice of | FreeBSD over RedHat be correct in this instance for a webserver do | you think? Most definitely. If you listen to Netcraft , FreeBSD is by far the best web-serving platform imaginable. All our web servers run FreeBSD, and I've never once wished they ran Linux. - -- - -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) - -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBw2s4sc4yyULgN4YRAqKpAKCSaa1I708aw67p81bBloyJ1UZOaQCdHRem 9jqsR1DKZrPn77EpWPSjvRc= =tU56 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----