From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 05:16:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB3C1065686 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from smtp.ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B433A8FC18 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 84365 invoked by uid 89); 12 Mar 2010 05:15:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.114?) (steve@ibctech.ca@::ffff:208.70.104.100) by ::ffff:208.70.104.210 with ESMTPA; 12 Mar 2010 05:15:51 -0000 Message-ID: <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:16:35 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Biquez References: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> In-Reply-To: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:16:37 -0000 On 2010.03.11 23:29, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. > This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest > version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x > and after doing all the process finally I can not have it running > corrcetly. Not a big problem since a secondary DNS an an email server > for one domain. I am still trying to recover it downloading and > installing the sae version it has but in case I can not fix I would like > to install a mor erecent version. > > The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III > processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. > > It won't do anything else but a dns slave for maybe 100 domains, mail > and squirrel for 10 domain, not more than 100 users with very low > volume. That's all. > > Can you give me your opinions on what would you? Honestly, so long as there is no GUI running, the only real difference I currently observe on machines that have the requirement to stay at this: %uname -a FreeBSD x.x.x 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 ...and something more current is that the more recent versions require much more thought put into the original size of the root (/) partition, particularly when you are used to performing source upgrades. Earlier versions required *much* less space. The performance difference is negligible, so long as though you plan on running the same processes, and still perform proper diligence in trimming your kernel config file appropriately. With upgrading to a more recent version, you garner the benefits of security patches, code efficiencies, ability to follow current standards/practices etc. Again... so long as the system won't change its overall process objectives, go to the recent production release, but instead of assigning 256M for /, throw 2G at it to be safe. Steve