From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 11: 3:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu (cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.2.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4232A1574B for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:03:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu) Received: (from rdkeys@localhost) by cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/UC02Jan97) id OAA07637; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:01:04 -0400 (EDT) From: rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu Message-Id: <199904211801.OAA07637@cc01du.unity.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: FBSD 2.2.6 --- any good still for server use? To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com (Christopher Michaels) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:01:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011057FB@site2s1> from "Christopher Michaels" at Apr 21, 99 01:41:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24/POP] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If you want to stay current then you are going to want the 3.1 release, if > you'd like to stick with the 2.2.x line, you should update to 2.2.8. This > is the last 2.2x release and, to my understanding is being kept up to date > as far as security holes and massive bugs are concerned. > -Chris > > > I was wondering how good FBSD 2.2.6 was relatively for server use, still. I see what you are saying, but, for the sake of discussion, a server is basically a static box, and won't change much till the cows come home, once up and running, OSwise. For example, my old tape dump box has the same OS from 1988, and is fine for what it does, dump tape. But, I was thinking that as a relatively static web server, for the long haul, is there any particular advantage or disadvantage to go go 3.1 (any remaining gotchas in 3.1 that would require some cvsupping updating, etc), vs 2.2.6 or 2.2.8? Granted 2.2.8 will go to bed at some time down the road, for good, but it still might be reasonable for simple web server use. What I need to do is gain some insight from folks using it as an everyday server as to pro and con. Any additional insights or discussion is appreciated. Thanks Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message