From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 31 16:49:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.inx.de (www.inx.de [195.21.255.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BE114F5F for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 16:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: from n37-31.berlin.snafu.de ([195.21.37.31] helo=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de) by www.inx.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10obo6-0006sn-00; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:49:26 +0200 Received: by goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de (Postfix, from userid 100) id 12FD139D; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:45:53 +0200 (CEST) To: "Jean-Pierre H. Dumas" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.8 or 3.1/3.2 for a safe/reliable server ? References: <19990531153337.9904.rocketmail@web1002.mail.yahoo.com> From: Juergen Nickelsen Date: 01 Jun 1999 01:45:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Jean-Pierre H. Dumas"'s message of "Mon, 31 May 1999 17:33:37 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jean-Pierre H. Dumas" writes on freebsd-questions: > But now I am facing the worst, use the "rock solid" 2.2.8, (I have > the Walnut Creek CDROM), or begin straight with 3.1 (I have a > snapshot in the "FreeBSD Toolkit CDRM set : CD_VERSION = > 3.1-19990327-STABLE) And I have 3.2 in back order. At work I have 2.2.7-STABLE running on the Internet gateway box that does routing, NAT, firewall, SMTP forwarder, SSH, FTP, WWW, and DNS. It is stable enough to stay up between power outages. (A little over 100 days was the most since I installed the machine.) 2.2.8 should be at least that stable. (I haven't upgraded to 2.2.8 because the system simply *works*.) On the other hand I use 3.2-STABLE at home, with similiar functions (although dialup), and it looks very good. There seem to be few problems with 3.2, judging from the discussion in the mailing lists. (I read -stable, -chat, -net, -security, and -questions.) I would not hesitate to use it on a production machine. There were, though, some glitches in 3.1, if I remember correctly. -- Juergen Nickelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message