Hi Jeff, I have been following your interesting posts to the Fedora list and and I certainly appreciate your concerns as well as your insightful comments. My company currently has a server farm that is all FreeBSD. Before you decide to switch to FreeBSD for stability and continuing updates and patches, I suggest you have a look at the FreeBSD update cycle (www.freebsd.org/security). Currently the oldest release that is supported is 4.7 with 4.8 being the current release. 4.9 is in beta. 5.1 is out as a "new technology" release. 4.8 goes to end of life in March of 2004. There will be no support for it after that! Generally there have been three releases a year and any release older than a year is EOL. The patch/update mechanism is to continuously update to the current distribution. So the short story is look before you leap on FreeBSD. -- Dave Rogers Plano, Texas
