> Many seasoned unix people have spoken to me about how much more stable > FreeBSD is, although at the risk of starting a flame war I'm not convinced > that this is still the case, at least not for the 5 series vs Trustix. (vs > most linux distributions - sure :D )
I have 9 webservers, two nfs-servers, one firewall and one samba-server all running RELENG_5_4, some even on the Dell PE 2850 without any problems. The webservers are reasonably loaded in the evening, the nfs-servers pushes some GB during the day, rsync etc. without any problems. > Ports are cool. Trustix doesn't provide an exim package, so I'm forever > updating that myself. One very *nice* app that FreeBSD has is /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and is worth installing, makes updating much more convenient rather than doing the upgrade manually. It even creates a package for you if you use the -p parameter (lowercase p), and if you make the /usr/ports/packages directory it will place the created packages with the same layout as the ports-collection itself. Nfs-mount the ports-directory from another host and upgrading apps suddenly becomes a matter of minutes (using the -P parameter (uppercase p)). Claus _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
