Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:23:53 +0200 From: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> To: David Hogan <david@fundamentalit.com> Cc: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable? Message-ID: <b41c7552050609002342db928c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050608223449.9630F43D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <42A6C7CE.9000002@incubus.de> <20050608223449.9630F43D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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> Many seasoned unix people have spoken to me about how much more stable > FreeBSD is, although at the risk of starting a flame war I'm not convince= d > that this is still the case, at least not for the 5 series vs Trustix. (v= s > most linux distributions - sure :D ) I have 9 webservers, two nfs-servers, one firewall and one samba-server all running RELENG_5_4, some even on the Dell PE 2850 without any problems. The webservers are reasonably loaded in the evening, the nfs-servers pushes some GB during the day, rsync etc. without any problems. > Ports are cool. Trustix doesn't provide an exim package, so I'm forever > updating that myself. One very *nice* app that FreeBSD has is /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and is worth installing, makes updating much more convenient rather than doing the upgrade manually. It even creates a package for you if you use the -p parameter (lowercase p), and if you make the /usr/ports/packages directory it will place the created packages with the same layout as the ports-collection itself. Nfs-mount the ports-directory from another host and upgrading apps suddenly becomes a matter of minutes (using the -P parameter (uppercase p)). Claus
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