From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 03:18:41 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 E905F16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:18:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from hiwatt.lognet.ch (hiwatt.lognet.ch [195.141.214.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE8D43D5E for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:18:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meier@logmail.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hiwatt.lognet.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F16F246E05 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:18:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from hiwatt.lognet.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hiwatt.lognet.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05798-01-8 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:18:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from hiwatt.lognet.ch (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hiwatt.lognet.ch (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C605246DCE for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:18:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from firewalli.lognet.ch ([195.141.214.38]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user meier.logmail) by hiwatt.lognet.ch with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:18:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <64287.195.141.214.38.1073992712.squirrel@hiwatt.lognet.ch> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:18:32 +0100 (CET) From: "David Meier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: How "safe" is 5.2 to use? 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: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:18:42 -0000 Hello list, I am relatively new to the world of FreeBSD. But first, congrats to the new release! I am somewhat insecure on how trustfully I can use the new release for my intended use (and I hope my questions haven't been posted a zillion times before). Therefore I hope the FreeBSD nuts can advise me whether to go for 4.9 or 5.2. The setup: hardware: DELL PowerEdge 1750 (Dual XEON, 2GB RAM, RAID 1). web server: Apache 2.0, MySQL 4.0, PHP 4.3.4, Perl 5.8 mail server: Postfix, Cyrus IMAPd, Cyrus SASL, Amavis-new, SpamAssassin, ClamAV The servers will be used for virtual hosting as a small ISP evironment and housed about 30min from where I work (in case I have to reset them...). I don't know how and if the instability risks may affect such a setup of services on the hardware described. Unfortunately, the advisories are kept in pretty general language, however, I know it is hard to predict how it will be running on a particular system. I just don't know FreeBSD well enough to have a 'feel' about it (although I don't rely too much on 'feelings' in the world of computers). Is upgrading to 5.2 comparable to, say, I upgrade from RedHat 9 to RedHat's newest release? What I like about the 5.x releases is the possibility of taking file system snapshots, for example to back up the mailboxes. Thanks for all input. Dave.