From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 14 10:11:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A43D37B491 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA14741; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 04:11:22 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdk14739; Thu Feb 15 04:11:17 2001 Message-ID: <025101c096b1$9895b620$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: Windows2000 to FreeBSD encouragement needed Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 04:11:45 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Can I set it up and let it run with > > only minimum maintenance and not have to update it > > constantly (Linux)? :) :) :) I see someone else has words about the linux idea of "wake up every morning & upgrade the o/s before breakfast" > > I have never updated my server, although I should depending on security > advisories. I have found FreeBSD to be extremely stable and highly > reliable. My servers only go down for two reasons, power loss (no-ups) or I > turn it off. > > One server is going on 64 days of uptime, the other 62. I simply don't have > to worry about them. We run three FreeBSD servers & one Win2000 server for a non-profit ISP. The uptimes are over a year for one, 9 months for the second, 4 months for the third, & ummmm a couple weeks for the Win2000. Both the shorter running FreeBSD machines had o/s upgrades which accounts for the 9 months /4 months. None of the systems have UPS. > > BTW, I don't use X windows on any of my servers, I just don't see the need. > Even once Kylix is available, I will probably develop on Suse and transfer > my executables to the server. I am a firm believer that FreeBSD is a great > server platform (perhaps the best), but only mediocre on the desktop. > Others, of course, may have differing opinions. According to some security experts, X is a risk anyway. I agree totally with the comment "great server platform (perhaps the best), but only mediocre on the desktop" ... the basic FreeBSD o/s is used by many of the busiest sites on the web. My experience with XFree however has been that whilst it may be free, its a pig of a thing compared with the GUIs used in many commercial unixes & KDE is a poorly designed / extremely unstable disaster that best belongs with the boy-wonder linux fanatics who measure uptimes in minutes rather than months. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message