From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 07:37:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAED516A425 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:37:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8FA43D73 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:23:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so1945rng for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:23:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QlxqHFSdj5zhB63duFoPZfxDtlrygIYY+Mz70GpQdVvwok2exHR0MfVaNEWEeq5kZ3zgo2+Z0iMZmVRxQPjycPmYhBTJvEReiNWoowujb9ZUnmsJZqnln6pk5dP2XPNQPrKG3Fcz6K7qy83TmRkgYyZvDvqMxkFws/X+YOYafnk= Received: by 10.38.24.63 with SMTP id 63mr186340rnx; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.149.57 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 00:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:23:53 +0200 From: Claus Guttesen To: David Hogan In-Reply-To: <20050608223449.9630F43D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42A6C7CE.9000002@incubus.de> <20050608223449.9630F43D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Cc: Matthias Buelow , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Claus Guttesen List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:37:11 -0000 > 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