I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?

[Danial Thom]

--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
wrote:

> On 2006-06-19 12:33, Erik Trulsson
> <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:11:38PM +0300,
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >>On 2006-06-17 11:29, Dan Bikle
> <dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Anish,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks this is good info.
> >>>
> >>> I'll be using this server for development
> of a Ruby on Rails.
> >>>
> >>> Currently I do development on a Mac.
> >>>
> >>> My production server is running freeBSD 5.3
> >>
> >> You shouldn't be running a production server
> with 5.3 at all.
> >>
> >> The 5.3 release was clearly marked as a
> "developer preview" release
> >
> > No, it was not.  5.3 was a perfectly ordinary
> release. It was in fact
> > the first 5.x release that was *not* marked
> as a "developer preview".
> 
> You're right.  I must have been thinking of
> 5.2.1.
> 
> Sorry for the misinformation :-/

I'd say that a $55. celeron on Freebsd 4.11 would
be just as fast as a Sempron an 5.3, so why not
save some money and get something that everyone
knows is "production ready"?

DT

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