From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 13:39:20 2005 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 26C5216A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:39:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE56643D5D for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:39:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gfoster9055@comcast.net) Received: from 204.127.197.111 (rwcrwbc15.attbi.com[204.127.197.125]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <20050203133919014003ib0me>; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:39:19 +0000 Received: from [198.208.159.14] by 204.127.197.111; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:39:11 +0000 From: gfoster9055@comcast.net To: Technical Director Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:39:11 +0000 Message-Id: <020320051339.17358.4202297F00082A30000043CE2205886172CACACFC79D0A9B9C010009@comcast.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Dec 17 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: Z2Zvc3RlcjkwNTVAY29tY2FzdC5uZXQ= cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 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: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:39:20 -0000 Where am I going to find a 3.2 to install, looked on the net and linuxcentral for it with no luck. Greg > > Greg, > > Wow, talk about handcuffing. One thing I am interested in is if they apply > this policy to Microsoft/Sun/Oracle/{$Enterprise} software. Most > institutions I know seem to feel that since they've paid the big bucks for > this software they better stay up with the latest to be safe. > > If this is the case for your situation you might want to encourage that > this to is required for such things as this server and what it is doing. > > Enterprise or not they should see the business model for this. > > Rob. > > PS > > If you *have* to stay at 3.2 you might want to consider shifting away > (IMHO) from packages/ports and start to work with the individual packages > themselves. Keeping in mind that if this is a production server you should > probably get a pre-production box with 3.2 on it and do your 'playing' > around there. FreeBSD is in the most part a good system to install > software on from the original source tar.gz. > > eg: > > - MySQL will install but you will have to place a fair amount of time > getting a proper foundation in place prior to actually attempting it. > (NOTE: Threads, compiler, make, etc.) > > - PHP should be less of a hassle unless your ./configure line looks like a > short story. > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 gfoster9055@comcast.net wrote: > > > At this momment I am not allowed to up date from FreeBSD 3.2 to another > > version, this machine sits at a school and there policies are slow, so I > > have to use what is there for the most part, what I need to do is add > > some packages like mysql, update php etc..... I was wondering if anyone > > knew if FreeBSD 3.2 uses the same package manager has 5.3? Does anyone > > know where I might be able to find docs for 3.2? Since this is a > > production server I can't just play and try things like I want to. Any > > info would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"