I've got our server running FreeBSD since that is what our servers
at work run. I thought I'd stay uniform and learn a new platform
at the same time.
After switching to Debian, I'm surprised that FreeBSD doesn't have a
nice update feature like apt-get. You can update via a reboot with
updated floppies, or use CVSup and rebuild everything from source,
but as far as I've investigated it there is not easy and automatic
way to patch holes from security patches.
If anyone knows of a way I'd be interested in hearing about it.
It's been pretty rock solid, though.
-Rob.
Dennis Soper said these things on 20001103.2148:
| Hi all,
|
| I built my daughter a FreeBSD box as requested, for her birthday.
| Used 4.1.1. This thing is a Pentium 133, 64MB RAM, with a funky
| old Trio 64 S3 video card with 2MB onboard; it's positively snappy
| running Gnome and Netscape. Plus, the ports collection and the
| BSD CVS stuff is way too cool. Oh, and did I mention, integrated
| cryptography?
|
| Kinda makes me think about nuking the linux partition on my
| workstation's hard drive-- I'm impressed.
|
| (Flameproof suit on)
|
| Cheers,
| Dennis
| "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
| --Noel Godin
