I'm curious to know which machines update policy u guys apply on your Freebsd systems.
I like the ports system then I think it is a bit like a nightmare, considering every day there is something new to build and this need effort and CPU consuming task. Not only this: often u have to reboot your machines, or just reload apps in case of desktop systems and this really point me in the direction of a critical question: whats the point of having a very stable OS (like Freebsd is), if u have to reboot it like everyday or so becouse of some update u need to properly reload? And what about tons of megabytes download slowing down your productivity? And what update code compile burning and slowing down your machine most of the time? I'm lucky enough to be on a fiber optical Internet network, then I'm still tired about downloading and compiling stuff pretty much every day to update my Freebsd machines.
Also my new, minimal, Freebsd gateway box everyday offer me like some update and considering I like to maintain my machines always up to date I have to take care of install them and sometimes reboot the gateway and this generate some Internet downtime for my LAN. I remember when I had my Red Hat 7.1 based gateway I had months of uptime before the need to download and apply updates. And that was a matter of minutes, becouse I alwats applied binary packages to it.
So what is your opinion guys? how often u do update your Freebsd machines? What is in your opinion related on this subject, the right policy to apply related with all this updates rolling down pretty much every day from Freebsd developers?
As a happy Windows user too, I will suggest Freebsd developers to apply a policy similar to the one Microsoft do apply to support Windws: rolling down updates just one a month or so.
And BTW another welcome option could be to have generic binary packages repository also for updates, so it will be a lot more easy and less time consuming to apply all the patches and install the new needed software.
Whats your opinion related with the subject?
I like the ports system then I think it is a bit like a nightmare, considering every day there is something new to build and this need effort and CPU consuming task. Not only this: often u have to reboot your machines, or just reload apps in case of desktop systems and this really point me in the direction of a critical question: whats the point of having a very stable OS (like Freebsd is), if u have to reboot it like everyday or so becouse of some update u need to properly reload? And what about tons of megabytes download slowing down your productivity? And what update code compile burning and slowing down your machine most of the time? I'm lucky enough to be on a fiber optical Internet network, then I'm still tired about downloading and compiling stuff pretty much every day to update my Freebsd machines.
Also my new, minimal, Freebsd gateway box everyday offer me like some update and considering I like to maintain my machines always up to date I have to take care of install them and sometimes reboot the gateway and this generate some Internet downtime for my LAN. I remember when I had my Red Hat 7.1 based gateway I had months of uptime before the need to download and apply updates. And that was a matter of minutes, becouse I alwats applied binary packages to it.
So what is your opinion guys? how often u do update your Freebsd machines? What is in your opinion related on this subject, the right policy to apply related with all this updates rolling down pretty much every day from Freebsd developers?
As a happy Windows user too, I will suggest Freebsd developers to apply a policy similar to the one Microsoft do apply to support Windws: rolling down updates just one a month or so.
And BTW another welcome option could be to have generic binary packages repository also for updates, so it will be a lot more easy and less time consuming to apply all the patches and install the new needed software.
Whats your opinion related with the subject?