From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 22 22:37:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA01477 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA01454 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:37:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03421; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:35:53 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199701230635.IAA03421@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: News server, 2.1.6.1 vs 2.2 In-Reply-To: from spork at "Jan 22, 97 11:34:27 pm" To: spork@super-g.com (spork) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:35:53 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL24 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm about to start building a new news server, and I'm kind of in the dark > about which version of FBSD to go with. We have about 5 machines running > 2.1.6 now, and it's been very stable and predictable. But I'm a bit > curious if any of the recent enhancements in 2.2 would make it worth the > risk (how much of a risk?) for a bit more speed and some additional > features. > > ... > > Any thoughts? Anyone else running 2.2 on a news server? > I'm running a news server on 3.0-CURRENT of November 14th, which is about the same as 2.2-ALPHA. I haven't had a panic yet..... touch wood. I am using INN 1.5.1 with it. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za