Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:26:49 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu> To: LeKhoi <lekhoi.com@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why must boot in single mode. Message-ID: <41C36B39.5040605@cs.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: <badbb9b404121621574054c005@mail.gmail.com> References: <BAY16-F37768EA78223A1D37E2A0EB9AE0@phx.gbl> <41C11AA3.10406@mac.com> <badbb9b404121617314c5bc2b1@mail.gmail.com> <41C24E39.6060801@cs.earlham.edu> <badbb9b404121621574054c005@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 LeKhoi wrote: | Thank you Skylar for sharing the information. | | I current have a simple server running RedHat, and wanting to | switch to FreeBSD as I think that FreeBSD would offer better | platform as a server in stability and security patches as such. (Am | I correct here or what ? :-) Yes. Until my current job, I used to be exclusively Red Hat Linux (unless you count the OS/2 box :-) ). Where I work now uses FreeBSD nearly exclusively on the x86 servers, with the only x86 server running Linux out of necessity for SystemImager. Getting started on FreeBSD can be a bit rough, but I'd give the Handbook <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html>; a good look over and you should be set. ports is a blessing unto itself, and the reliability and good division between production and development branches just makes it that much better than Red Hat. I think the only Linux distro that comes close is Debian. | I am doing all my research just to make sure I am making the | correct decision here. | | And this one about the single user mode is really making me cold | feet at the moment :-) I acutally wouldn't worry about it. We just patch our systems for critical security updates. We still have a bunch of servers running 4.4-RELEASE just because we know it works. I would, however, make sure the data centre staff is willing to look at FreeBSD single-user mode in case something goes FUBAR. | I will contact data centres just to make sure that they have all | the facility needed to boot it into single user mode. Thanks again | | Oh, btw, I have a quick scan on your personal page, very impress | that you are helping to maintain the servers. Would my choice of | FreeBSD over RedHat be correct in this instance for a webserver do | you think? Most definitely. If you listen to Netcraft <http://www.netcraft.com>, FreeBSD is by far the best web-serving platform imaginable. All our web servers run FreeBSD, and I've never once wished they ran Linux. - -- - -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) - -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBw2s4sc4yyULgN4YRAqKpAKCSaa1I708aw67p81bBloyJ1UZOaQCdHRem 9jqsR1DKZrPn77EpWPSjvRc= =tU56 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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