From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 30 21:30:13 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6E5E0A93A for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from oceanview.tundraware.com (oceanview.tundraware.com [45.55.60.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mailman.tundraware.com", Issuer "mailman.tundraware.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 613F180BF7 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by oceanview.tundraware.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v7ULU3B2038589 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:30:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Subject: Re: VPS that will run xBSD References: <673b7208-c0d9-5179-407a-2cf9d276e1a8@fjl.co.uk> <031E40A6-0C53-47B2-BA86-E9932E02000B@sigsegv.be> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Tim Daneliuk Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:29:58 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (oceanview.tundraware.com [45.55.60.57]); Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:30:04 -0500 (CDT) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: v7ULU3B2038589 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.925, required 1, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, AWL 0.08, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.00) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:30:13 -0000 On 08/30/2017 04:19 PM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > Thanks, but the whole problem is that they're "pre-installed". I can't > run STABLE or any other version Amazon hasn't set up, never mind custom > kernels. Actually, I've no idea what would happen if you took one and > recompiled the kernel from new source but I don't really have the time > to find out - nothing good I suspect. I run FreeBSD regularly on Digital Ocean droplets. I initially installed their image just to get going. I have a nightly cron job that does a source tree update and recompile of the entire system and several kernels. I can then update when- and as I wish. At the moment, the server that is up is running shows this: myserver:/usr/src>svn info Path: . Working Copy Root Path: /usr/src URL: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/10 Relative URL: ^/stable/10 Repository Root: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f Revision: 323012 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: davidcs Last Changed Rev: 322975 Last Changed Date: 2017-08-28 14:17:28 -0500 (Mon, 28 Aug 2017) tl;dr It works just fine.... P.S. I run it nightly because recompiling world and kernel is on a VPS is sloooooow. What takes 30 mins on a quad core i5 takes over 5 hours on the droplet. Who cares? I'm asleep :) Then again, a big (more expensive) droplet would likely do it much faster. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/