Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 13:35:53 +0000 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@fastmail.fm> To: "Leonard, Harry" <Harry.Leonard@az.ngb.army.mil> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about FreeBSD Versions Message-ID: <20030909133553.GB1559@npkfbsd> In-Reply-To: <2F335745DF2B9D409FB4D2BAE67F178822562C@az-04010-exch02.az.ngb.army.mil> References: <2F335745DF2B9D409FB4D2BAE67F178822562C@az-04010-exch02.az.ngb.army.mil>
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--NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:49:46AM -0700, Leonard, Harry wrote: > Hello FreeBSD, >=20 > My name is Harry Leonard and I'm very interested in using FreeBSD. I work > in a small shop, outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for the State of Arizona, = in > a half Microsoft, half open source environment. I'm the resident program= mer > and I've used Perl/PHP/MySQL here for almost four years. My boss has set= up > servers running OpenBSD and I get to use them creating our website and > running intranet applications. My problem now is that my boss is in Iraq > and we're in need of a new server or two. >=20 > I've researched the subject and have found myself getting a little squeam= ish > with the thought of installing/tweaking an OpenBSD box. FreeBSD seemed l= ike > the next viable option and I did get a thumbs up from my boss. I also sa= w a > segment on TechTv's Screen Savers which gave me the confidence that I cou= ld > pull this off. I started looking at versions and decided to purchase the > latest and greatest. >=20 > I bought the four disk set of FreeBSD 5.0 w/ the handbook and thought I w= as > on a roll. Surely, I installed it several times before I got it right and > then I began to run into problems and loose some confidence. My problems > started with the installation of Apache. I'm going back after it today > though and I hope that I'll have some success. Yes, I am a newbie but a > driven one. I very much want to have two FreeBSD boxes in-house and I am= a > hard one to quit. I did quit on FreeBSD 5.0 though and I also think this= is > where my troubles really began. >=20 > I figured that I would do some more reading and found that 5.0 might not = be > the best version for newbie's (in cases of trouble). So, I figured that I > would go to FreeBSD 5.1. A newer version shouldn't hurt huh? Well, I th= ink > something went awry in the download and I never got this version to work > correctly for me either. Well, now I'm figuring that I'll just move > backwards to FreeBSD 4.8 Stable and this will just alleviate all my > problems. This has not worked yet for me either and my confidence is > further eroding. But, my tenacity is still in there and I'd rather go do= wn > in flames than let my office mate turn this office into a full Microsoft > shop and me running Apache/PHP/MySQL on an IIS box. My boss expressed his > dismay of this happening and I told him I would not let him down. Newbie= I > may be but I'm not a quitter. =20 >=20 > This email is about: Which version of FreeBSD should I be using for > production? I need to set up an in-house web server for our website and > another box for my few intranet applications. In the near future I might > have the opportunity to create a firewall box and I really need to get on > top of things. Today, I'll go back to FreeBSD 5.0 (which I've had the mo= st > success with) and read the errata over again and make sure there's nothing > that I'm missing. I'd appreciate it if you could give me a stamp of > approval on which version I can/should use for my small production needs. > Sorry, if I've gotten a little windy with my explanation but I wanted to > give you some background. I also Thank You for reading this email and for > any help that you can provide me in this matter. Please let me know what > you think? >=20 > Sincerely,=20 >=20 > Harry Leonard > Information Technology Specialist III > Camp Navajo > phone: @ (928) 773-3363 > e-mail: @ Harry.Leonard@az.ngb.army.mil As another poster pointed out, you might consider going with a 4.8-RELEASE, or maybe 4.8-STABLE to be on the safe side. Check out this link: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html Other than that, again, what specific problems are you having? Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Xdc5O0ZIEthSfkkRAgGpAJ4upAI4cv1XoEEerKVrcrCvxQqZ/wCePde8 GT4Or0SJah/VeYni+TUN4Fw= =rzCY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU--
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