On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:56:27AM -0400, bsdfsse wrote: > > I started running FreeBSD because a friend of mine is going to run a > website on 4.10-STABLE. Someone had told him that 4.x was "safer" to > run than 5.x. > > Recently I had a hardware problems on one of my machines that is forcing > me to run 5.x on it, instead of 4.x. Should I lobby my friend to also > run 5.x ? His webserver will be behind a hardware firewall.
I would let him leaf his server on 4.x and wait untill 5.3 or untill there are no more 4 releases plus fixes. But would go with 5.2.1 if I had to do a fresh install. And would do a fresh install if I switched to 5 because of UFS2. > Its my understanding servers on the web often run the "security > release", which is RELEASE+fixes. That way, no new features in STABLE > introduce more exploitable bugs. Other people run web servers on STABLE > (they must feel confident that nothing new is going to break). This is true for every release stable or not. I run 5.2 plus fixes. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
