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August 2002 Daemon News Ezine Published

Posted by michael on from the your-ideas-intrigue-me dept.

questionlp writes "The August 2002 Ezine has been published and is packed with articles and columns with topics ranging from behind-the-scenes look at VicFUG 2002, a report on the recent O'Reilly OSCON, one's adventure through Unix starting from Linux to FreeBSD, a HOWTO on backing up FreeBSD with tar and SMBFS, plus a look at some of the most popular web browsers (most of which are available in the BSD Ports collection)."

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  1. Re:Upgrading once a week? Is he serious? by Wdomburg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >One comment in the Life After Redhat article stuck
    >out. He loves FreeBSD and his systems are
    >"upgraded once a week (all software)". Is this
    >normal pratice? I still have SuSE 6.3 systems
    >running.

    "Normal practice" varies depending on who you're talking to. :)

    On the networks I administrate, I have a strict policy of "no unjustified upgrades", which usually translates to applying only security patches and relevent bug fixes. It might include new versions of software if, and only if, we're rolling out an enhancement to our services that necessitates it.

    Part of the reason for being so restrictive is because we do QA and testing after every upgrade, so all upgrades have an associated cost in admin time. It may seem overly paranoid, but we've caught a lot of subtle issues that would have otherwise effected service to our customers.

    Matt