From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 2 11:58:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA29482 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gromit.eu.org (root@psd.7da.nl [195.108.246.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA29453 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from P.Dekkers@gromit.eu.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gromit.eu.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/psd) with SMTP id VAA00486 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 21:00:46 +0100 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 21:00:46 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Dekkers X-Sender: paul@gromit.nev.ml.org Reply-To: Paul Dekkers To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: update or not? Message-ID: X-Mood: :-) but almost |-| (sleeping) Organization: Me and organized? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I currently run FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a mashine that's used as a multi-user system and I'm planning to setup a new mashine that doesn't let users log in but let it play web-server or mail-server or smth like that... I'm planning to put FreeBSD 2.2.1 on that server, but is that a good idea? I'm just doing it because I have that version on CD and I don't have newer versions... (although I can buy them) - Is the new version really that changed (security holes or in any other aspect (which? speed?) that I'd immediately buy the new version? So my main question: should I upgrade or not, or install a new version or not, or even both? :-) Are there many major bugs, and if so, can I find a list on the net of security-holes in the version I'm currently using? (maybe I'm taking a big risk because it's a multi-user system?!) If I'd upgrade the multi-user system, can I do that without any pain? What can I do to let it go nice and so on...?! Thank you, (On linux I never doubt upgrading because I know there are many security holes, but is that too on FreeBSD...) Paul P.S. Or is it worth setting up for my home-system: is the awe 32 pnp supported? (including midi-player and so on?) (in that case it would be of interest ;-))