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. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"