From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 5:53:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.xtraxion.com (e134174.upc-e.chello.nl [213.93.134.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23BC37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 05:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from xp (xp.xtraxion.com [10.0.0.3]) by ns1.xtraxion.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g1EDvolC071465 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:57:51 +0100 (CET) From: "Rick Hoppe" To: Subject: Why track FreeBSD-STABLE? Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:53:23 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, In a lot of documents on the internet how to setup a secure FreeBSD server they tell to track FreeBSD-STABLE. According to other sources (like the book FreeBSD Unleashed), FreeBSD-STABLE (and FreeBSD-CURRENT) should be regarded as beta-quality. My opinion about beta versions is that it is not finished yet or could contain some bugs. According to them those versions are not RELEASE quality yet. So why should I decide to track FreeBSD-STABLE and create the possibilty for new security-problems and new bugs? In my eyes it's better to install RELEASE and track the FreeBSD security advisories, so I patch my RELEASE every time? Just like what a good Windows administrator should do every week.... What are your thoughts about this? Regards, Rick Hoppe Network- and Systemspecialist Xtraxion Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message