For those that care....

[LER]

I just updated the OS on the apache / vBulletin host from FreeBSD 6.2 to FreeBSD 6.3. This brings in a years worth of maintenance and upgrades, etc.

This should help stability.

 

[Jimbo]

I just updated the OS on the apache / vBulletin host from FreeBSD 6.2 to FreeBSD 6.3. This brings in a years worth of maintenance and upgrades, etc.

This should help stability.

Thanks Ler :up

Jimbo

 

[darrencp22]

Wow... FreeBSD is still around? I used that over at my old old job as a nameserver. We wound up going to RedHat because we were told FreeBSD was being phased out so we would no longer receive support... guess not.

 

[LER]

Wow... FreeBSD is still around? I used that over at my old old job as a nameserver. We wound up going to RedHat because we were told FreeBSD was being phased out so we would no longer receive support... guess not.

Actually, FreeBSD 7 is the current production release, and I intend to get there this weekend or next here. The FreeBSD project (The FreeBSD Project) is working on FreeBSD 8.

FreeBSD is my OS of choice, due to the way they engineer releases, and the FreeBSD ports collection ROCKS! (I'm the maintainer of a few ports).

 

[mike123abc]

Wow... FreeBSD is still around? I used that over at my old old job as a nameserver. We wound up going to RedHat because we were told FreeBSD was being phased out so we would no longer receive support... guess not.

Apple OS is freebsd based ( Open Source ). So, yeah FreeBSD is around more than one would think.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

FreeBSD is also a lot more secure then other Unix packages. There have been a number of Linux exploits recently but our FREEBSD was not effected.

 

[LER]

Apple OS is freebsd based ( Open Source ). So, yeah FreeBSD is around more than one would think.

FreeBSD/Mach and stuff from NetBSD as well.

Apple also gives back as well. Watching the commit logs, I see stuff coming from Apple, Inc. as well.

 

[stevenl]

Ports does rock, compared to rpm's and the likes