From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 02:22:45 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 AB8DC16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:22:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3061843D62 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:22:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE236106; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:22:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19065-10; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:22:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123B26105; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:22:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41A14D60.4080709@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:22:24 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041113) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Kjeldergaard References: <20041121180539.A4962@aslan.camp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.1.2 at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Most Suitable version of FBSD for server? 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: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:22:45 -0000 Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: >>Which version of FBSD is currently most appropriate for use as >>a server (mail, NFS, samba)? 4.9? 4.10? 5.somethingorother? > > > Obviously you'll want something current so 4.9 is out of the question. > That kind of leaves the 2 distinct branches. These are the 4.x and > 5.x and are currently represented by 5.3 and 4.10. Which you want is > rather for you to decide. I recommend trying both. It seems like a > lot of work, but is probably best. Many say that for SMP, 5.3 has > advantages although there have been threads in the lists that argue > both ways. I would recommend trying with 4.10 for a while and 5.3 for > a while and load-testing each to see which performs better and which > best fits your needs. > While I agree (in part) I think the user ought to move to 5.x - 4.x is legacy, and no telling how much longer it will be until there is little to no support or development for it. -- Best regards, Chris To change an environment variable in tcsh you use: setenv NAME "value" where NAME is the name of the variable and "value" its new value.