Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 13:02:56 +0200 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: living with freebsd Message-ID: <20080505130256.5sai63nsgooooc80@www.boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <481EE670.8010305@lc-words.com> References: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home> <481ED9C7.4050209@laposte.net> <20080505124117.B28398@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <481EE670.8010305@lc-words.com>
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Quoting Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com>: > This got me interested. So basically for a server, you don't do any > upgrades unless there are security issues to solve or new features that > you need? > > It seems to me that sometimes if you have waited with an upgrade for > too long, it is more difficult to upgrade than it would have been if > you had followed all small updates which appeared along the way... > I think you have to differentiate between updates and upgrades. I consider an upgrade moving from one release to another (say from 6.2 to 6.3), while security patches are updates. I always run updates, but I don't always follow upgrades. Recently I upgraded one older machine from 5.5 to 6.2 (en even more recent to 6.3). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org
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