Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 00:42:06 +0100 From: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl> To: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Chat" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re[2]: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <10525754683.20021123004206@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Dear/Beste Anthony, Sunday, November 17, 2002, 10:59:37 AM, you wrote: > The most appropriate version of any operating system to run on your server > is the oldest one that meets your requirements. Otherwise you will spend > your life doing someone else's debugging. This policy doesn't help against security bugs. Only a couple of development tries are (officially) supported. All a cracker would have to do is read the bug warnings and use a good one to gain access to you system. I feel that a good production server should not be CURRENT or STABLE but the latest RELEASE on the STABLE tree, unless you got a good reason not to. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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