From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 12:24:46 2002 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 0E0A637B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:24:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mout2.freenet.de (mout2.freenet.de [194.97.50.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0F143ED4 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from backspace@freenet.de) Received: from [194.97.55.147] (helo=mx4.freenet.de) by mout2.freenet.de with asmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18OOGf-0004Ui-00; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:24:41 +0100 Received: from xdsl-195-14-207-23.netcologne.de ([195.14.207.23] helo=[192.168.1.50]) by mx4.freenet.de with asmtp (ID doobedoo@freenet.de) (Exim 4.10 #1) id 18OOGe-0002BX-00; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:24:40 +0100 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:24:33 +0100 (CET) From: Georg Klein To: ay@sita.kiev.ua Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability In-Reply-To: <200212171502.gBHF2MN85548@sima.sita.kiev.ua> Message-ID: <20021217212018.H776-100000@newton.gkln.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 ay@sita.kiev.ua wrote: > In article <20021217022222.GA42831@kzsu.stanford.edu.lucky.freebsd.questions> you wrote: > > Hey, one of my acquaintences is running a 2.2.8-STABLE box > > which had 1048 days of uptime as of 32 days ago. I bet it's > > still up... > > :) > Is it ok to still run this security hole called 2.2.* ? > :) > -- It's ok. it's better than following this windoze hype that you always have to run the latest version. It makes the quality of an OS, that you dont have always to run the latest release. How many sites are still running Solaris 2.6? And - a lttle fun must be! -Georg -- Georg Klein backspace@freenet.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message