On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:14:35PM +0000, RW wrote: > If it's for a production server, you might consider building your own > packages on a separate machine.
My principal interest is server side. The true is, a year ago, I gave a try to a server (a web server) in a VPS and the only two things I must to compile was the kernel to add quota support and php5 to add the apache module (surely, being a novice, that defaults obey to reasons I ignore). I abandoned because the provider was at US and ssh was very slow from Europe (where I live). With updates at server side, the only point I'd like experienced people here give me an opinion about is to what extent I can rely security patches on freebsd-update command. Just a subjective opinion is enough, nothing specific. Other thing I have pending to learn is what poly mentioned: jails. Anyway I inquire into updates because I try as far as possible to run the same OS at my desktop to avoid checking man pages each time I use ls or cp :-). But, in general, I think I am fine with RELEASE at desktop too. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
